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CVE-2026-40954

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Description

CVE-2026-40954 is an integer underflow vulnerability in the traffic parsing function of Secure Access clients prior to 14.55. Attackers with intimate knowledge of and total control over the tunnel protocol can create a non-persistent DoS against their client

Severity
LOW
CVSS score
2.1 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
Published
2026-07-15 20:16:58.273000
Last modified
2026-10-24 21:10:00.130000
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  "lastModified": "2026-10-24T21:10:00.130",
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