# CVE-2025-5450: Missing authorization in Connect Secure

> Remote authenticated admin with read-only rights can modify restricted certificate management settings in Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Jul 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jm8p-8v2h-26pm

## What is CVE-2025-5450?

CVE-2025-5450 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure, published on 8 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Improper access control in the certificate management component of Ivanti Connect Secure before version 22.7R2.8 and Ivanti Policy Secure before version 22.7R1.5 allows a remote authenticated admin with read-only rights to modify settings that should be restricted.

Weakness: CWE-602 (Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5450?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Ivanti Connect Secure, Ivanti Policy Secure.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-5450?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-5450 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-5450 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5450 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure

- [CVE-2021-22893](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-22893/): Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Use-After-Free (critical 10.0, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2019-11510](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-11510/): Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Arbitrary File Read (critical 9.9, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2024-21887](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-21887/): Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure Command Injection (critical 9.1, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-22457](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22457/): Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways Stack-Based Buffer Overflow (critical 9.0, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-0282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0282/): Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways Stack-Based Buffer Overflow (critical 9.0, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-5450 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-5450 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure, published on 8 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5450 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Ivanti Connect Secure. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5450/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5450/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5450
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5450
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-5450

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5450/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.