CVE-2025-0292: Ivanti Connect Secure SSRF Vulnerability

CVE-2025-0292 Overview

CVE-2025-0292 is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability [CWE-918] affecting Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure appliances. The flaw lets a remote authenticated attacker with administrative rights issue requests from the appliance to internal network services that would otherwise be unreachable. Ivanti disclosed the issue as part of its July 2025 security advisory covering multiple CVEs across its secure access gateway products. Exploitation requires valid administrator credentials, which limits opportunistic attacks but remains relevant in scenarios involving credential compromise, insider threat, or post-exploitation pivoting.

Critical Impact
An authenticated administrator can abuse the appliance to reach internal-only services, enabling reconnaissance and lateral movement into segments the gateway can route to.

Affected Products

Ivanti Connect Secure versions prior to 22.7R2.8
Ivanti Policy Secure versions prior to 22.7R1.5
All 22.7 release branch iterations listed in the vendor advisory (for example 22.7R1 through 22.7R2.7 for Connect Secure)

Discovery Timeline

2025-07-08 - CVE-2025-0292 published to the National Vulnerability Database
2025-07-08 - Ivanti publishes the July Security Advisory for Connect Secure and Policy Secure
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-0292

Vulnerability Analysis

The vulnerability is a Server-Side Request Forgery in the administrative interface of Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure. An authenticated administrator can supply a URL or host reference that the appliance then fetches on the attacker's behalf. Because the request originates from the gateway itself, it inherits the appliance's network position and can reach services bound to internal interfaces, management networks, or peer systems that are not exposed to the internet.

The practical impact is loss of confidentiality against internal network services. The vulnerability does not directly modify data or affect availability, but it expands the attacker's visibility into the environment behind the appliance. That visibility is often the precursor to lateral movement, credential harvesting, or exploitation of unpatched internal systems.

Root Cause

The root cause is insufficient validation of a server-side request destination in an administrative code path. The application accepts a host or URL parameter and initiates an outbound request without restricting the target to an allowlist of expected endpoints. Ivanti addressed the issue in Connect Secure 22.7R2.8 and Policy Secure 22.7R1.5.

Attack Vector

Exploitation is network-based but requires prior authentication with administrator privileges. An attacker who has obtained admin credentials, session tokens, or an already-compromised admin console can submit a crafted request through the vulnerable administrative feature. The appliance then connects to the attacker-specified internal endpoint and returns response data or observable side effects that reveal service state.

No public proof-of-concept exploit or CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities entry exists for CVE-2025-0292 at the time of writing. Refer to the Ivanti July Security Advisory for vendor-supplied technical details.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-0292

Indicators of Compromise

Outbound TCP connections from the Ivanti appliance to internal IP ranges or ports not associated with normal gateway operation
Administrative session activity from unexpected source IPs, geographies, or outside change windows
Repeated administrative API requests referencing internal hostnames, 127.0.0.1, 169.254.169.254, or RFC1918 addresses in URL parameters

Detection Strategies

Baseline the appliance's legitimate outbound destinations, then alert when new internal destinations appear in flow records or firewall logs
Review Ivanti admin audit logs for parameter values that contain URLs, IP literals, or host references submitted by administrator accounts
Correlate administrator authentication events with subsequent egress traffic from the appliance to detect anomalous request patterns

Monitoring Recommendations

Forward Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure syslog, admin audit, and access logs to a centralized SIEM for retention and correlation
Enable NetFlow or equivalent telemetry on the network segment where the appliance resides to capture unexpected internal connections
Alert on any administrative logins from IP addresses not on an approved management allowlist

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-0292

Immediate Actions Required

Upgrade Ivanti Connect Secure to 22.7R2.8 or later, and Ivanti Policy Secure to 22.7R1.5 or later
Restrict access to the administrative interface to a dedicated management network and known jump hosts
Rotate administrator credentials and API tokens if the appliance was reachable from untrusted networks prior to patching
Enable multi-factor authentication for all administrator accounts on the appliance

Patch Information

Ivanti released fixes for CVE-2025-0292 in Connect Secure 22.7R2.8 and Policy Secure 22.7R1.5. Details and download instructions are available in the Ivanti July Security Advisory.

Workarounds

Limit administrative access with source-IP allowlisting at the appliance and upstream firewalls until patching is complete
Segment the appliance so it cannot initiate connections to sensitive internal services such as hypervisor management, identity stores, or backup infrastructure
Review administrator account inventory and disable dormant or shared accounts that could be abused to reach the vulnerable code path

bash

# Example egress restriction from the appliance management interface
# Replace <ADMIN_MGMT_CIDR> and <APPLIANCE_IP> with your values
iptables -A OUTPUT -s <APPLIANCE_IP> -d 10.0.0.0/8 -j DROP
iptables -A OUTPUT -s <APPLIANCE_IP> -d 172.16.0.0/12 -j DROP
iptables -A OUTPUT -s <APPLIANCE_IP> -d 192.168.0.0/16 -j DROP
iptables -A OUTPUT -s <APPLIANCE_IP> -d 169.254.169.254 -j DROP