Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HSummary
CVE-2025-4428 is a high-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059); ranked in the top 0.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; CISA has added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2025-4428 is a remote code execution vulnerability in the API component of Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) versions 12.5.0.0 and earlier. The flaw, assigned CWE-94, permits code injection through specially crafted requests and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.2 reflecting high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability when successfully exploited.
Authenticated attackers with administrative API access can send malicious requests that result in arbitrary code execution on the affected server. Because the attack requires valid high-privilege credentials and targets the network-accessible API, it is most relevant to insiders, compromised administrative accounts, or attackers who have already obtained such credentials.
Ivanti’s security advisory and the associated CISA entry direct customers to apply the vendor-supplied patches for EPMM and to review the hardening guidance published in the advisory. The vulnerability is listed in CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirming observed in-the-wild exploitation. The EPSS score rose from low values to a peak of 0.6390 on 2025-12-18 before receding to the current 0.4098, indicating a clear post-disclosure increase in exploitation interest that warrants renewed attention.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-14387
Vulnerability Data
Remote Code Execution in API component in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile 12.5.0.0 and prior on unspecified platforms allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted API requests.
- CWE(s)
- KEV Date Added
- 19 May 2025
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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V1.3.1
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation finds code paths that accept and execute externally influenced strings.
Input validation directly stops untrusted data from being used to construct executable code without neutralization.
Least privilege limits the damage an injected code fragment can perform once executed.
Requiring documented secure development standards and tools enforces use of safe code-generation APIs and escaping.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
PR.PS-06's SDLC practices directly target injection flaws via secure coding and testing (mostly), yet as a single broad outcome it leaves many code-generation specifics unaddressed (partial).
PR.DS-10 protects runtime data confidentiality/integrity but has no bearing on neutralizing externally influenced input during code generation, so neither direction shows any preventive effect.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Banning unapproved code samples and unauthenticated web services, combined with secure-coding standards and SAST, prevents the dynamic generation or inclusion of attacker-supplied code.
Controls that restrict unauthorized or malicious code from being introduced via external networks or removable media limit opportunities for an attacker to inject and execute arbitrary code.