CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-32086

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2026-07-27 Modified 2026-08-03 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-07-27
Last modified
2026-08-03
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-321

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• quest kace systems management appliance 11.0.273

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-321 Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key weakness

References