Vulnerability Advisory : WatchGuard Firebox Race Condition and Use-After-Free in Mobile VPN with IKEv2 LDAP Authentication with HIGH Attack Complexity

WatchGuard Fireware OS contains a race condition leading to a use-after-free vulnerability in LDAP authentication for the Mobile User VPN with IKEv2. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the context of the iked process on Fireboxes that have a Mobile VPN with IKEv2 configured to use an external LDAP authentication server. This vulnerability affects Fireware OS 11.0 up to and including 11.12.4_Update1, 12.0 up to and including 12.12 and 2025.1 up to and including 2026.2.