# CVE-2025-54086: Excess Permissions in Warehouse

> Local attackers can read the Java keystore file due to excess permissions in the Warehouse component of Absolute Secure Access.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 6 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6m24-hgh7-h454

## What is CVE-2025-54086?

CVE-2025-54086 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access, published on 2 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

CVE-2025-54086 is an excess permissions vulnerability in the
Warehouse component of Absolute Secure Access prior to version 14.10. Attackers
with access to the local file system can read the Java keystore file. The
attack complexity is low, there are no attack requirements, the privileges
required are low and no user interaction is required. Impact to confidentiality
is low, there is no impact to integrity or availability.

Weakness: CWE-276 (Incorrect Default Permissions)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-54086?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Absolute Secure Access.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-54086?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-54086 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-54086 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54086 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-2025-54086 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-54086 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access, published on 2 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54086 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-2025-54086/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54086/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54086
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54086
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54086

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54086/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.