Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.59 Connection Set Up Sub-System denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.59. It has been classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Connection Set Up Sub-System. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-97716. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.59 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component Connection Set Up Sub-System. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

CVE-2026-97716 is a vulnerability in the connection set up sub-system of Secure Access servers prior to version 14.60. Unauthenticated attackers can send specially crafted traffic to the server and cause a persistent denial of service.

It is possible to read the advisory at absolute.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-97716 since 09/25/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. 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 14.60 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
• 14.55
• 14.56
• 14.57
• 14.58
• 14.59

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