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Buffer Over-read DoS in Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, ZTA Gateway, and Neurons for Secure Access

IdentifiersCVE-2025-5456CWE-125· Out-of-bounds Read

CVE-2025-5456 is a buffer over-read vulnerability in multiple Ivanti products: Ivanti Connect Secure before 22.7R2.8 or 22.8R2, Ivanti Policy Secure before 22.7R1.5, Ivanti ZTA Gateway before 2.8R2.3-723, and Ivanti Neurons for Secure Access before 22.8R1.4. The flaw is classified as CWE-125. Based on the provided content, the issue is reachable remotely without authentication and is associated with improper bounds checking during network data or protocol parsing, causing the software to read beyond the intended buffer boundary. Exploitation can destabilize or crash the affected appliance or service, resulting in denial of service.

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Successful exploitation allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial-of-service condition. The provided content indicates this may manifest as a crash or general instability of affected Ivanti appliances and services, potentially disrupting VPN, zero trust, or secure access functionality provided by those systems.

Mitigation

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Apply vendor patches as the primary mitigation. For cloud-hosted Ivanti Neurons for Secure Access, the content states remediation was already applied by Ivanti on 2025-08-02. For on-premises deployments, upgrade to the fixed versions promptly. No specific temporary workaround or compensating control for CVE-2025-5456 is provided in the supplied content.

Remediation

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Upgrade affected products to fixed versions released by Ivanti. The provided content identifies the remediated versions as: Ivanti Connect Secure 22.7R2.8 or 22.8R2; Ivanti Policy Secure 22.7R1.5; Ivanti ZTA Gateway 2.8R2.3-723; and Ivanti Neurons for Secure Access 22.8R1.4. Ivanti states fixes were deployed on 2025-08-02, and Neurons for Secure Access cloud environments were already remediated with no additional customer action required there.
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VendorProductType
IvantiConnect Secureapplication
IvantiNeurons For Secure Accessapplication
IvantiPolicy Secureapplication
IvantiZero Trust Access Gatewayapplication

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