Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.54 Traffic Parsing Function integer underflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.54. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Traffic Parsing Function. The manipulation results in integer underflow. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-40955. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.54. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is some unknown processing of the component Traffic Parsing Function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a integer underflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-191. The product subtracts one value from another, such that the result is less than the minimum allowable integer value, which produces a value that is not equal to the correct result. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

CVE-2026-40955 is an integer underflow vulnerability in the traffic parsing function of Secure Access clients prior to 14.55. Attackers with intimate knowledge of and total control over the tunnel protocol can create a non-persistent DoS against their client.

The advisory is shared for download at absolute.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-40955 since 04/16/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 14.55 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Absolute Security

Name

• Secure Access

Version

• 14.0
• 14.1
• 14.2
• 14.3
• 14.4
• 14.5
• 14.6
• 14.7
• 14.8
• 14.9
• 14.10
• 14.11
• 14.12
• 14.13
• 14.14
• 14.15
• 14.16
• 14.17
• 14.18
• 14.19
• 14.20
• 14.21
• 14.22
• 14.23
• 14.24
• 14.25
• 14.26
• 14.27
• 14.28
• 14.29
• 14.30
• 14.31
• 14.32
• 14.33
• 14.34
• 14.35
• 14.36
• 14.37
• 14.38
• 14.39
• 14.40
• 14.41
• 14.42
• 14.43
• 14.44
• 14.45
• 14.46
• 14.47
• 14.48
• 14.49
• 14.50
• 14.51
• 14.52
• 14.53
• 14.54

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