CVE-2021-32088

9.8 criticalEPSS 0.5%

Critical (9.8) in quest kace systems management appliance. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SMA) 11.0.273. Certain API endpoints contain a rate-limiting feature to minimize a brute-force attack. This protection can be bypassed by removing the kboxid cookie.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 43% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-384
Published: 2026-07-27
Modified: 2026-08-03
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

quest:kace_systems_management_appliance

References

https://support.quest.com/download-product-select
https://support.quest.com/kace-systems-management-appliance/kb/4293505/quest-response-to-criticalstart-vulnerability-report

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