Absolute Security Secure Access up to 13.53 management console permission

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Absolute Security Secure Access up to 13.53. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component management console. Performing a manipulation results in permission. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2025-27703. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Absolute Security Secure Access up to 13.53. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown functionality of the component management console. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-275. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

CVE-2025-27703 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the management console of Absolute Secure Access prior to version 13.54. Attackers with administrative access to a specific subset of privileged features in the console can elevate their permissions to access additional features in the console. The attack complexity is low, there are no preexisting attack requirements; the privileges required are high, and there is no user interaction required. The impact to system confidentiality is low, the impact to system integrity is high and the impact to system availability is low.

It is possible to read the advisory at absolute.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-27703 since 03/06/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1222 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 13.54 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-16357). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Absolute Security

Name

• Secure Access

Version

• 13.0
• 13.1
• 13.2
• 13.3
• 13.4
• 13.5
• 13.6
• 13.7
• 13.8
• 13.9
• 13.10
• 13.11
• 13.12
• 13.13
• 13.14
• 13.15
• 13.16
• 13.17
• 13.18
• 13.19
• 13.20
• 13.21
• 13.22
• 13.23
• 13.24
• 13.25
• 13.26
• 13.27
• 13.28
• 13.29
• 13.30
• 13.31
• 13.32
• 13.33
• 13.34
• 13.35
• 13.36
• 13.37
• 13.38
• 13.39
• 13.40
• 13.41
• 13.42
• 13.43
• 13.44
• 13.45
• 13.46
• 13.47
• 13.48
• 13.49
• 13.50
• 13.51
• 13.52
• 13.53

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