Integer underflow vulnerability in Secure Access clients
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 8/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.32% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
- Fixed version: Absolute Security Secure Access 14.55.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Absolute Security Secure Access 14.55 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
CVE-2026-40955 is an integer underflow vulnerability in the traffic parsing function of Secure Access clients prior to 14.55. Attackers with intimate knowledge of and total control over the tunnel protocol can create a non-persistent DoS against their client.
- Published
- Jul 15, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.3% · 23th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-191
Report tools
Action score
8
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 8 / 40 · 2.1 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.3%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · Absolute
- 2.1
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| absolute | secure access | cpe:2.3:a:absolute:secure_access |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- absolute secure accessbefore 14.55
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Absolute). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Absolute Security Secure Access
- before 14.55affected · Client
Same product
absolute: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2026-55402CVE-2026-55402 is an out of bounds read vulnerability in Secure Access
servers prior to version 14.57.34Monitor
- CVE-2026-33445Memory management vulnerability in Secure Access servers34Monitor
- CVE-2026-40952Privilge misconfiguration in Secure Access installers34Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-40953Jul 15, 2026 · Heap overflow in Secure Access clients26Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-40954Jul 15, 2026 · Integer underflow in Secure Access clients prior to 14.558Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-40956Jul 15, 2026 · Memory disclosure in Secure Access Clients8Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Absolute Security Secure Access | 14.55 | Vendor (CNA) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
- CVE-2026-409540 days apartInteger underflow in Secure Access clients prior to 14.558Monitor
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- Integrity
- Availability
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- High
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- A
- Scope
- X
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-191 · Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.