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Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2025-54983

Medium
5.2/10

Summary

A health check port on Zscaler Client Connector on Windows, versions 4.6 < 4.6.0.216 and 4.7 < 4.7.0.47, which under specific circumstances was not released after use, allowed traffic to potentially bypass ZCC forwarding controls.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
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  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-772 - Missing Release Of Resource After Effective Lifetime

'Missing release of resource after effective lifetime' is a weakness that occurs when software doesn't sufficiently release a resource (e.g. memory, CPU, disk space, etc.) after it is used. If not addressed, attackers can launch a denial of service attack (by allocating a resource and not releasing it).

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published