CVE-2026-40949

FAUCET Score

CVE-2026-40949 is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Secure Access Windows client prior to 14.50. Attackers with local control of the Windows client can use it to trigger a denial of service.

First published: Apr 30, 2026Last modified: May 1, 2026

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		>= 0, < 14.50CPE match	cpe:2.3:a:absolute:secure_access::::::::
		< 14.50CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:absolute:secure_access::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

6.8MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Attack Requirements

NONE

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

VS Confidentiality

NONE

VS Integrity

LOW

VS Availability

HIGH

SS Confidentiality

NONE

SS Integrity

NONE

SS Availability

NONE

Exploit Maturity

NOT_DEFINED

CvssVersion

4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.10%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

1.2%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0010 is in the 17th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

absolute.com / platform/security-information/vulnerability-archive/cve-2026-40949

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