CVE-2025-9242 Details
An Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in WatchGuard Fireware OS may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects both the Mobile User VPN with IKEv2 and the Branch Office VPN using IKEv2 when configured with a dynamic gateway peer.This vulnerability affects Fireware OS 11.10.2 up to and including 11.12.4_Update1, 12.0 up to and including 12.11.3 and 2025.1.
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-9242
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System): EPSS predicts the likelihood that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild. A higher percentage means a greater chance of an exploit occurring. The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%).
86.37 Probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days (100th percentile)
CVSS score for CVE-2025-9242
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System): An open framework owned and managed by FIRST.Org, Inc. that assigns a numerical score from 0 to 10 to software vulnerabilities to indicate their severity.
9.8 Critical

CVE-2025-9242 Global Footprint

Top 10 Identified Countries

Country Observations Percentage
US 9,182 31.69%
IT 2,504 8.64%
JP 2,175 7.51%
GB 2,113 7.29%
DE 1,608 5.55%
CA 1,439 4.97%
ES 1,030 3.55%
FR 932 3.22%
SE 686 2.37%
AU 544 1.88%

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CVE-2025-9242 Industry Footprint

Top 10 Identified Industries

*Service provider organizations (typically Technology and Telecommunications) are disproportionally represented in the results given their upstream ownership of end-user infrastructure. See our FAQs.

Industry* Observations Percentage
Telecommunications 11,081 73.25%
Technology 2,502 16.54%
Business Services 236 1.56%
Government/Politics 195 1.29%
Education 144 0.95%
Energy/Resources 125 0.83%
Utilities 102 0.67%
Transportation 96 0.63%
Engineering 91 0.60%
Manufacturing 86 0.57%

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