CVE-2024-23774: Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Quest KACE Agent for Windows 12.0.38 and 13.1.23.0. An unquoted Windows search path vulnerability exists in the KSchedulerSvc.exe and AMPTools.exe components. This allows local attackers to execute code of their choice with NT Authority\SYSTEM privileges.

Affected products

• Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance: before 13.1.25 (fixed in 13.1.25); before 13.2.24 (fixed in 13.2.24)

Published 2024-04-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.