CVE-2025-27703 (GCVE-0-2025-27703)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-28 20:56
Modified
2025-05-28 23:57
Summary
CVE-2025-27703 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the management console of Absolute Secure Access prior to version 13.54. Attackers with administrative access to a specific subset of privileged features in the console can elevate their permissions to access additional features in the console. 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 is low, the impact to system integrity is high and the impact to system availability is low.
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