Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) Improper Authentication Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2026-04-20
Federal due date
2026-05-04
Vendor
Quest
Product
KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA)
EPSS
97.4th percentile (score 0.393, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32975

CISA short description

Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) contains an improper authentication vulnerability that could allow attackers to impersonate legitimate users without valid credentials.

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.