Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.56 Load Balancing Sub-System null pointer dereference
| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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Summary
A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.56. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Load Balancing Sub-System. The manipulation results in null pointer dereference. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-55401. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.
Details
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.56. Affected is an unknown part of the component Load Balancing Sub-System. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:
CVE-2026-55401 is a null dereference vulnerability on the load-balancing sub-system of Secure Access servers prior to 14.57. Attackers can send an unauthenticated packet to a Secure Access server with load balancing enabled, which results in the internal load balancer crashing. After a successful attack, the Secure Access server is still able to accept connections and is still able to issue a failover to connected clients. https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/4.0#CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
The advisory is available at absolute.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-55401 since 06/16/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.
Upgrading to version 14.57 eliminates this vulnerability.
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Product
Vendor
Name
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
- 14.55
- 14.56
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.2
VulDB Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Temp Score: 7.2
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Exploiting
Class: Null pointer dereferenceCWE: CWE-476 / CWE-404
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ATT&CK: 🔒
Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes
Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
0-Day Time: 🔒
Upgrade: Secure Access 14.57
Timeline
06/16/2026 CVE reserved08/13/2026 Advisory disclosed
08/13/2026 VulDB entry created
08/13/2026 VulDB entry last update
Sources
Advisory: absolute.comStatus: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2026-55401 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-55401
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-389658
Entry
Created: 08/13/2026 18:31Changes: 08/13/2026 18:31 (54)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103
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