Resource exhaustion in Absolute Secure Access

CVE-2026-40951

CVE-2026-40951 is a memory corruption vulnerability on Secure Access Windows clients prior to 14.50. Attackers with local control of the Windows client can send malformed data to an API and trigger a denial of service.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (2.4th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 2nd percentile — 2.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2026-40951: held from 0.001 to 0.001.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-40951?
CVE-2026-40951 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-04-30.
How severe is CVE-2026-40951?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.