CVE-2026-0517 Denial of Service in Secure Access Servers Prior to 14.20.
Medium 6.0
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-0517 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2026-0517 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access, published on 17 Jan 2026.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-0517 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-2026-0517/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-0517/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-0517?
CVE-2026-0517 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access, published on 17 Jan 2026.
Official description
CVE-2026-0517 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in versions of Secure Access Server prior to 14.20. An attacker can send a specially crafted packet to a server and cause the server to crash
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-0517?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Absolute Secure Access.
How do I fix CVE-2026-0517?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-0517 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-0517 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-0517 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Absolute Secure Access
- CVE-2026-55402 Denial of service in Secure Access
- CVE-2026-33445 Memory management vulnerability in Secure Access servers
- CVE-2025-49080 Memory management vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access server versions 9.0 to 13.54
- CVE-2026-40952 Privilge misconfiguration in Secure Access installers
- CVE-2026-33451 Arbitrary read/write vulnerability in Windows clients prior to 14.50
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7r6x-p782-g6p6.