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CVE-2025-32978

CVSS v3.1 7.5 (HIGH) · EPSS 0.1% (higher than 40.6% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 5.4/10 · Published 2025-06-24

As of 2025-11-03, CVE-2025-32978 is a HIGH-severity vulnerability, CVSS v3.1 7.5, EPSS 0.1% (40.6th percentile). Threadlinqs Intelligence links 1 tracked threat campaign to CVE-2025-32978, most recently “Quest KACE SMA Critical Authentication Bypass Actively Exploited in Education Sector (CVE-2025-32975)”.

Last updated: 2025-11-03

What is CVE-2025-32978?

Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) 13.0.x before 13.0.385, 13.1.x before 13.1.81, 13.2.x before 13.2.183, 14.0.x before 14.0.341 (Patch 5), and 14.1.x before 14.1.101 (Patch 4) allows unauthenticated users to replace system licenses through a web interface intended for license renewal. Attackers can exploit this to replace valid licenses with expired or trial licenses, causing denial of service.

The record classifies CVE-2025-32978 under weakness class CWE-306. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on availability. The identifier was first published 445 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

CVSS v3.1 base score: 7.5 — HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS (FIRST): 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40.6% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV: Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Threadlinqs priority: 5.4/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
Published: 2025-06-24, last modified 2025-11-03

Is CVE-2025-32978 being exploited?

It currently carries a trending score of 15 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

Affected products and versions

No affected-product or package list has been recorded for CVE-2025-32978 in the tracked sources. The vendor advisory and the references below are the authoritative statement of what is affected.

How to fix CVE-2025-32978

No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2025-32978 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat any affected deployment as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.

Threat activity tracking CVE-2025-32978

1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2025-32978, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

Quest KACE SMA Critical Authentication Bypass Actively Exploited in Education Sector (CVE-2025-32975) — CRITICAL · 2026-03-21

Sources

Seeded from nvd and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.

Full detection coverage & IOCs for threats exploiting CVE-2025-32978 are available via the Threadlinqs MCP server (Purple tier). View plans →

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