CVE-2025-26850 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the agent component of Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) versions prior to 14.0.97 and 14.1.19. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this flaw allows an attacker to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability on managed systems, requiring only local access and low attack complexity. While the vulnerability is severe, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0, < 14.0.97CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:quest:kace_systems_management_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 14.1.0, < 14.1.19CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:quest:kace_systems_management_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.7 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 1.0 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.