CVE-2025-26850 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The agent in Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) before 14.0.97 and 14.1.x before 14.1.19 potentially allows privilege escalation on managed systems.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00018.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Quest Subscribe	Kace Systems Management Appliance Subscribe

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Vendors	Products
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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2025-20096	The agent in Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) before 14.0.97 and 14.1.x before 14.1.19 potentially allows privilege escalation on managed systems.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://support.quest.com/kb/4378559/quest-response-to-kace-sma-agent-vulnerability-cve-2025-26850

History

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:15:00 +0900

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:30:00 +0900

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The agent in Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) before 14.0.97 and 14.1.x before 14.1.19 potentially allows privilege escalation on managed systems.
Weaknesses		CWE-863
References		https://support.quest.com/kb/4378559/quest-response-to-kace-sma-agent-vulnerability-cve-2025-26850
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 9.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2025-07-04T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-07-08T14:36:07.987Z

Reserved: 2025-02-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-26850

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-08T14:35:05.904Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-07-05T00:15:22.670

Modified: 2025-07-08T16:18:53.607

Link: CVE-2025-26850

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-14T06:47:59Z

Weaknesses

CWE-863

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