What is GHSA-9vvg-8c87-463f?

GHSA-9vvg-8c87-463f is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. CVE-2026-40953 is a heap overflow in the certificate parsing function of Secure Access clients...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-9vvg-8c87-463f cover?

GHSA-9vvg-8c87-463f covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-40953. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

GHSA-9vvg-8c87-463fMedium

CVE-2026-40953 is a heap overflow in the certificate parsing function of Secure Access clients...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

July 15, 2026

Last Modified

July 15, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-40953 →

📋 Description

CVE-2026-40953 is a heap overflow in the certificate parsing function of Secure Access clients prior to 14.55. Attackers with local access and administrator permissions can create a denial of service attack against the client over which they have control.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40953
https://www.absolute.com/platform/security-information/vulnerability-archive/cve-2026-40953
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9vvg-8c87-463f