CVE-2021-32086

critical · 9.8

An issue was discovered in Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SMA) 11.0.273. It uses a hardcoded symmetric encryption key to encrypt secrets in the MySQL databases. (This key is not unique for each installation.) An attacker that gains access to the MySQL server or a backup files can decrypt the secrets. Often, the decrypted secrets can be used to escalate privileges within KACE, or gain privileged access to unrelated systems or services.

9.8

CVSS

0.2%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

9th

EPSS percentile

2026-07-27

Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-321

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
quest	kace_systems_management_appliance	11.0.273

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References

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

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2021-32086