# CVE-2025-49081: Input validation vulnerability in the Secure Access prior to version 13.55

> Administrators can cause denial of service in the Secure Access administrative UI by writing invalid data to the warehouse component.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.9 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/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:** 12 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 12 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wh58-9hxp-jgfr

## What is CVE-2025-49081?

CVE-2025-49081 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access, published on 12 Jun 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

There is an insufficient input validation vulnerability in the warehouse
component of Absolute Secure Access prior to server version 13.55. Attackers
with system administrator permissions can impair the availability of the Secure
Access administrative UI by writing invalid data to the warehouse over the
network. The attack complexity is low, there are no attack requirements,
privileges required are high, and there is no user interaction required. There
is no impact on confidentiality or integrity; the impact on availability is
high.

Weakness: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-49081?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Absolute Secure Access.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-49081?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-49081 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-49081 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-49081 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-2025-49081 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-49081 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access, published on 12 Jun 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-49081 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-2025-49081/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-49081/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-49081
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49081
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-49081

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-49081/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.