# CVE-2025-27703: Privilege escalation in the management console of Absolute Secure Access prior to version 13.54

> Attackers with limited admin access can escalate privileges to access additional features in the Absolute Secure Access management console.

- **Severity:** High 7.0 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 May 2025
- **Updated:** 28 May 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-c3vv-fgcp-2m26

## What is CVE-2025-27703?

CVE-2025-27703 is a high-severity vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access, published on 28 May 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-281 (Improper Preservation of Permissions)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-27703?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Absolute Secure Access.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-27703?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-27703 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-27703 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-27703 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Absolute Secure Access

- [CVE-2026-55402](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-55402/): Denial of service in Secure Access (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2026-33445](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-33445/): Memory management vulnerability in Secure Access servers (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2025-49080](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-49080/): Memory management vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access server versions 9.0 to 13.54 (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2026-40952](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-40952/): Privilge misconfiguration in Secure Access installers (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2026-33451](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-33451/): Arbitrary read/write vulnerability in Windows clients prior to 14.50 (high 8.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-27703 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-27703 is a high-severity vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access, published on 28 May 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-27703 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Absolute Secure Access. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-27703/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-27703/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-27703
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27703
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-27703

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-27703/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.