Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.54 Publisher resource consumption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.54. It has been rated as critical. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Publisher. Performing a manipulation results in resource consumption. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-55399. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.54. This affects an unknown function of the component Publisher. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

CVE-2026-55399 is a resource exhaustion vulnerability in the Secure Access publisher prior to 14.55. Attackers with valid credentials to the Secure Access tunnel can create a non-persistent DoS against the publisher.

It is possible to read the advisory at absolute.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-55399 since 06/16/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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