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 491 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)
- 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58.4% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 8.1/10 — 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?
Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2025-32978 is publicly available. 1 public proof-of-concept repository is tracked for this identifier. It currently carries a trending score of 28 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
- trickest/cve (trickest)
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.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, FIRST EPSS, GitHub Security Advisories, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on .