High

Missing Authorization Privilege Escalation in Ivanti Connect Secure / Policy Secure / ZTA Gateway / Neurons for Secure Access

IdentifiersCVE-2025-55141CWE-862· Missing Authorization

CVE-2025-55141 is a missing authorization vulnerability in the web-based administrative interface of multiple Ivanti secure access products. Affected versions are Ivanti Connect Secure before 22.7R2.9 or 22.8R2, Ivanti Policy Secure before 22.7R1.6, Ivanti ZTA Gateway before 2.8R2.3-723, and Ivanti Neurons for Secure Access before 22.8R1.4. The flaw stems from insufficient authorization enforcement on sensitive configuration functionality, allowing a remote authenticated user who only has read-only administrative privileges to access and modify authentication-related settings. In practice, this creates a privilege escalation path within the management plane because endpoints intended to be restricted to higher-privileged administrators do not properly validate the caller's effective permissions before permitting configuration changes.

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Impact

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Successful exploitation allows a low-privileged administrative user to alter authentication-related configuration despite only having read-only admin rights. This can undermine the integrity of the authentication model for the affected appliance or service, potentially allowing an attacker to weaken security controls, change how users authenticate, facilitate unauthorized access, or create conditions for persistent administrative access. Because the issue affects security access infrastructure products, compromise of authentication settings could have broader downstream impact on enterprise remote access and zero-trust access control environments.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

If immediate patching is not possible, restrict access to the web administrative interface to a tightly controlled management network, minimize the number of accounts with any administrative access including read-only admin roles, review and harden role assignments, and continuously monitor for unauthorized changes to authentication-related settings. Audit administrative activity and configuration history for suspicious modifications, especially changes affecting authentication providers, login policy, or access control behavior. These measures are compensating controls only; the primary mitigation is vendor patching.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade affected products to fixed versions provided by Ivanti. Based on the available information, the fixed versions are Ivanti Connect Secure 22.7R2.9 or 22.8R2 and later, Ivanti Policy Secure 22.7R1.6 and later, Ivanti ZTA Gateway 2.8R2.3-723 and later, and Ivanti Neurons for Secure Access 22.8R1.4 and later. The content notes that a fix was deployed on 02-Aug-2025. Apply Ivanti's vendor advisory guidance and verify that administrative authorization boundaries are restored after upgrade.

PUBLIC EXPLOITS

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EXPOSURE SURFACE

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VendorProductType

IvantiConnect Secureapplication

IvantiNeurons For Secure Accessapplication

IvantiPolicy Secureapplication

IvantiZero Trust Access Gatewayapplication

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ACTIVITY FEED

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zeropath blogNews

Sep 9, 2025

Ivanti Connect Secure CVE-2025-55141: Brief Summary of a Critical Missing Authorization Vulnerability - ZeroPath Blog | ZeroPath

A missing authorization vulnerability in Ivanti secure access products that allows remote authenticated users with read-only admin privileges to modify authentication-related settings, enabling privilege escalation and security policy bypass.

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