Ivanti Connect Secure stack-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure and Neurons for ZTA Gateways. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-22457. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure and Neurons for ZTA Gateways (affected version not known) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A stack-based buffer overflow in Ivanti Connect Secure before version 22.7R2.6, Ivanti Policy Secure before version 22.7R1.4, and Ivanti ZTA Gateways before version 22.8R2.2 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution.

The advisory is available at forums.ivanti.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-22457 since 01/07/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as attacked. This issue was added on 04/04/2025 to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with a due date of 04/11/2025:

Apply mitigations as set forth in the CISA instructions linked below.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Zero-Day.cz (987). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Stack-based overflow
CWE: CWE-121 / CWE-119
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Status: Attacked

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: forums.ivanti.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-22457 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-22457
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-303242
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 04/03/2025 17:42
Updated: 05/13/2025 01:40
Changes: 04/03/2025 17:42 (61), 04/03/2025 20:31 (6), 04/05/2025 01:14 (9), 04/05/2025 11:32 (1), 04/07/2025 18:05 (1), 05/02/2025 21:53 (4), 05/03/2025 10:03 (11), 05/13/2025 01:40 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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