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CVE-2017-6316: Citrix Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

criticalknown exploitedpublic exploitCVE-2017-6316
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
A vulnerability has been identified in the management interface of Citrix NetScaler SD-WAN Enterprise and Standard Edition and Citrix CloudBridge Virtual WAN Edition that could result in an unauthenticated, remote attacker being able to execute arbitrary code as a root user. This vulnerability also affects XenMobile Server.

CSIRTS triage

vendor: CitrixRemote code execution
What
A vulnerability in the management interface allows unauthenticated remote code execution as a root user.
Who is affected
Users of Citrix NetScaler SD-WAN and XenMobile Server.
Urgency
Immediate remediation is required due to active exploitation and critical severity.
Action
Update to the latest versions of the affected Citrix products.

AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.

Details

Source
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (US · database · site)
Severity
critical
Published
2022-03-25
Exploitation
Observed in the wild (CISA KEV)

Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6316

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

Referenced CVEs

CVECSIRTS overviewExternal
CVE-2017-6316coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

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