CVE-2021-32085: Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance

High severity, CVSS 8.8. 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. It installs with default user credentials. The report and R1 MySQL accounts have a password of box747, which is publicly known and documented. This allows remote attackers to trivially gain privileged access to the MySQL databases. Sensitive information is stored in the database, such as privileged credentials for other systems.

Affected products

• Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance: version 11.0.273 only

Published 2026-07-27. Last modified 2026-08-03.