CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2025-49084 — is a vulnerability in the management console of Absolute Secure Access prior to version 13.56

Critical CVSS 9.1

CVE-2025-49084 is a vulnerability in the management console of Absolute Secure Access prior to version 13.56. Attackers with administrative access can overwrite policy rules without the requisite permissions. The attack complexity is low, attack requirements are present, privileges required are high and no user interaction is required. There is no impact to confidentiality, the impact to integrity is low, and there is no impact to availability. The impact to confidentiality and availability of subsequent systems is high and the impact to the integrity of subsequent systems is low.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.1 (3.1)
Published
2025-07-31
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-276

Affected products

  • absolute / secure_access

Matched remediation archetype

Privilege escalation and unsafe privilege management

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Check exposure

  • Map service accounts, operating-system identities, roles, capabilities, impersonation, set-user transitions, and administrative helper paths.
  • Determine whether untrusted users or lower-privilege processes can reach the affected transition or modify inputs it trusts.
  • Review file, socket, registry, device, job, container, and cloud-role permissions used before and after privilege changes.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the supported fix and redesign privileged operations as a minimal, authenticated, allowlisted interface.
  • Drop privileges before processing untrusted input, verify the drop succeeds, and remove unnecessary roles, capabilities, and write permissions.
  • Validate ownership and permissions at time of use and add explicit lower-to-higher privilege boundary tests.

Authoritative sources

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