CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-5466

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Published: Aug 12, 2025 | Modified: Sep 23, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

XEE in Ivanti Connect Secure before 22.7R2.8 or 22.8R2, Ivanti Policy Secure before 22.7R1.5, Ivanti ZTA Gateway before 22.8R2.3-723 and Ivanti Neurons for Secure Access before 22.8R1.4 (Fix deployed on 02-Aug-2025) allows a remote authenticated attacker with admin privileges to trigger a denial of service

Weakness

The product uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Connect_secure Ivanti * 22.7 (excluding)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7 (including) 22.7 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7-r1 (including) 22.7-r1 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7-r1.1 (including) 22.7-r1.1 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7-r1.2 (including) 22.7-r1.2 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7-r1.3 (including) 22.7-r1.3 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7-r1.4 (including) 22.7-r1.4 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7-r1.5 (including) 22.7-r1.5 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7-r2 (including) 22.7-r2 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7-r2.1 (including) 22.7-r2.1 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7-r2.2 (including) 22.7-r2.2 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7-r2.3 (including) 22.7-r2.3 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7-r2.4 (including) 22.7-r2.4 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7-r2.5 (including) 22.7-r2.5 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7-r2.6 (including) 22.7-r2.6 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 22.7-r2.7 (including) 22.7-r2.7 (including)

Potential Mitigations

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