CISA Mitigation Instructions for CVE-2025-0282

This page contains the mitigation instructions that correspond to the CISA KEV catalog entry CVE-2025-0282 – Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. 

For all instances of Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways: 

  1. Conduct threat hunting actions:  
    1. Run the In-Build Integrity Checker Tool (ICT). Instructions can be found here. 
    2. Conduct threat hunt actions on any systems connected to—or recently connected to—the affected Ivanti device.  
  2. If threat hunting actions determine no compromise: 
    1. Factory reset the device and apply the patch described in Security Advisory Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure & ZTA Gateways (CVE-2025-0282, CVE-2025-0283). 
    2. Monitor the authentication or identity management services that could be exposed. 
    3. Continue to audit privilege level access accounts. 
  3. If threat hunting actions determine compromise: 
    1. Report to CISA and Ivanti immediately to start forensic investigation and incident response activities.  
    2. Disconnect instances of affected Ivanti Connect Secure products.  
    3. Isolate the systems from any enterprise resources to the greatest degree possible. 
    4. Revoke and reissue any connected or exposed certificates, keys, and passwords, to include the following: 
      1. Reset the admin enable password. 
      2. Reset stored application programming interface (API) keys. 
      3. Reset the password of any local user defined on the gateway, including service accounts used for auth server configuration(s).  
    5. If domain accounts associated with the affected products have been compromised: 
      1. Reset passwords twice for on premise accounts, revoke Kerberos tickets, and then revoke tokens for cloud accounts in hybrid deployments. 
      2. For cloud joined/registered devices, disable devices in the cloud to revoke the device tokens.
    6. After fully investigating and patching any affected products, agencies may restore such systems to service.