An improper certificate validation vulnerability in Ivanti Secure Access Client before 22.8R6 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to ex

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• ivanti secure access clientup to 22.7 inclusive
• ivanti secure access client22.8

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (ivanti). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• ivanti Secure Access Client

  • 22.8R6not affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2025-22454Insufficiently restrictive permissions in Ivanti Secure Access Client before 22.7R4 allows a local authenticated attacker to escalate their
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• CVE-2024-37398Insufficient validation in Ivanti Secure Access Client before 22.7R4 allows a local authenticated attacker to escalate their privileges.
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• CVE-2024-7571Incorrect permissions in Ivanti Secure Access Client before 22.7R4 allows a local authenticated attacker to escalate their privileges.
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• CVE-2023-38042A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Ivanti Secure Access Client for Windows allows a low privileged user to execute code as SYSTEM
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• CVE-2023-41718When a particular process flow is initiated, an attacker may be able to gain unauthorized elevated privileges on the affected system when ha
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• CVE-2023-38543A vulnerability exists on all versions of the Ivanti Secure Access Client below 22.6R1.1, which could allow a locally authenticated attacker
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

A certificate validation error is silently swallowed instead of terminating the connection. Often, code added for a test environment makes its way into production.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1override fun checkServerTrusted(chain: Array<X509Certificate>, type: String) {2  // Left empty for the test environment3}

1val client = OkHttpClient.Builder()2  .certificatePinner(3    CertificatePinner.Builder()4      .add("api.sirius.example", "sha256/…")5      .build()6  ).build()

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.