Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.59 Authentication Sub-System denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.59. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component Authentication Sub-System. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-97714. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Absolute Security Secure Access up to 14.59 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Authentication Sub-System. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

CVE-2026-97714 is a is a vulnerability in the authentication sub-system of Secure Access servers prior to version 14.60. Attackers can send a malformed response during authentication and cause a persistent denial of service.

The advisory is shared for download at absolute.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-97714 since 09/25/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

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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