CVE-2025-54085 (GCVE-0-2025-54085)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-30 23:40 – Updated: 2025-07-31 13:31
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Title
Elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Secure Access administrative console of Absolute Secure Access prior to version 13.56
Summary
CVE-2025-54085 is a vulnerability in the management console of Absolute Secure Access prior to version 13.56. Attackers with administrative access to the console and who have been assigned a certain set of permissions can bypass those permissions to improperly read or change other settings. The attack complexity is low, there are no preexisting attack requirements; the privileges required are high, and there is no user interaction required. The impact to system confidentiality and integrity is low, there is no impact to system availability.
Severity
5.1 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-276 - Incorrect Default Permissions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Absolute Security Secure Access Affected: 0 , < 13.56 (Server)
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