{"id":130419,"date":"2025-10-19T10:57:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynews.com\/?p=130419"},"modified":"2025-10-19T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:57:08","slug":"watchguard-vpn-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynews.com\/watchguard-vpn-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"WatchGuard VPN Vulnerability Let Remote Attacker Execute Arbitrary Code"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WatchGuard has disclosed a critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability in its Fireware OS, enabling remote unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code via IKEv2 VPN connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Designated CVE-2025-9242 under advisory WGSA-2025-00015, the flaw carries a CVSS 4.0 score of 9.3, highlighting its potential for high-impact exploitation on Firebox appliances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published on September 17, 2025, and updated two days later, this issue affects versions from 11.10.2 to 11.12.4_Update1, 12.0 to 12.11.3, and 2025.1, exposing thousands of small and midsize enterprises to risks like full system compromise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WatchGuard, which secures over 250,000 organizations and 10 million endpoints, urges immediate patching to mitigate threats from <a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecuritynews.com\/tag\/ransomware-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ransomware<\/a> or other malicious actors targeting perimeter defenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vulnerability resides in the IKE process of Fireware OS, which handles IKEv2 negotiations for mobile users and branch office VPNs configured with dynamic gateway peers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-watchguard-vpn-vulnerability\"><strong>WatchGuard VPN Vulnerability<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>An attacker can send crafted IKE_SA_INIT and IKE_SA_AUTH packets to trigger an out-of-bounds write in the ike2_ProcessPayload_CERT function, where attacker-controlled identification data overflows a 520-byte stack buffer without sufficient bounds checking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even deleted VPN configurations may leave residual <a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecuritynews.com\/top-10-vulnerabilities-for-large-language-models\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vulnerabilities<\/a> if static peers remain active, allowing pre-authentication access over UDP port 500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security researchers at WatchTowr Labs, crediting btaol for discovery, reverse-engineered the code through patch diffing between vulnerable 12.11.3 and patched 12.11.4 versions, revealing a simple length check addition as the fix. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This stack-based buffer overflow, a primitive dating back to 1996, persists in 2025 enterprise gear lacking modern mitigations like PIE or stack canaries, though NX is enabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exploiting CVE-2025-9242 involves fingerprinting the firmware version via a custom Vendor ID payload in IKE_SA_INIT responses, which embeds base64-encoded details like &#8220;VN=12.11.3 BN=719894&#8221; 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