CVE-2024-40872

Elevation of privilege in Absolute Secure Access clients and servers

HIGH
8.4
CVSS Score
Published: July 25, 2024 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:46 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsSecure AccessSecure Access

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Severity
HIGH8.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

There is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in server and client components of Absolute Secure Access prior to version 13.07. Attackers with local access and valid desktop user credentials can elevate their privilege to system level by passing invalid address data to the vulnerable component. This could be used to manipulate process tokens to elevate the privilege of a normal process to System. The scope is changed, the impact to system confidentiality and integrity is high, the impact to the availability of the effected component is none.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 13.07
Affected range stops below 13.07, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 13.07
Affected range stops below 13.07, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

8.4HIGHAbsolute
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-822

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