CVE-2017-6316
Actively exploited. CVE-2017-6316 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-25) — exploitation has been observed in the wild, and US federal agencies are required to remediate it under BOD 22-01. Treat patching as urgent.
Public exploit code is available. Proof-of-concept or working exploit code for CVE-2017-6316 is indexed in Exploit-DB. Expect opportunistic scanning and exploitation attempts — prioritize remediation.
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
- 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.
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Exploitation outlook
- Exploitation confirmedAlready exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 99% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Exploit availability
Public exploit or proof-of-concept code for CVE-2017-6316 is indexed in these free datasets. Available exploit code raises real-world risk independent of the CVSS score.
- Exploit-DBA public exploit is published in the Exploit-DB archive.look it up ↗
Advisory coverage (1)
- criticalexploitedCVE-2017-6316: Citrix Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2022-03-25
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