# CVE-2025-54085: Privilege escalation in Secure Access

> Administrators with specific permissions can bypass restrictions to read or modify other settings in the Absolute Secure Access management console.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.1 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/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:** 30 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 31 Jul 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-p82v-f8g6-gh2j

## What is CVE-2025-54085?

CVE-2025-54085 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access, published on 30 Jul 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

CVE-2025-54085 is a vulnerability in the management console
of Absolute Secure Access prior to version 13.56. Attackers with administrative
access to the console and who have been assigned a certain set of permissions
can bypass those permissions to improperly read or change other settings. 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 and integrity is low, there is no impact to
system availability.

Weakness: CWE-276 (Incorrect Default Permissions)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-54085?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Absolute Secure Access.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-54085?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-54085 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-54085 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54085 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-2025-54085 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-54085 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access, published on 30 Jul 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54085 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-2025-54085/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54085/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54085
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54085
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54085

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54085/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.