Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance 11.0.273 hard-coded credentials

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A vulnerability was found in Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance 11.0.273 and classified as very critical. This impacts an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to hard-coded credentials. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2021-32086. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance 11.0.273. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a hard-coded credentials vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-798. The product contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for its own inbound authentication, outbound communication to external components, or encryption of internal data. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at support.quest.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2021-32086 since 05/06/2021. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 07/28/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1110.001.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Endpoint Management Software

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• Quest

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• KACE Systems Deployment Appliance

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• 11.0.273

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.quest.com/

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