CVE-2017-6316 — Citrix Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Overview
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.
Vulnerability details
- CVE ID
- CVE-2017-6316
- Vulnerability
- Citrix Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Vendor
- Citrix
- Affected products
- Citrix: NetScaler SD-WAN Enterprise, CloudBridge Virtual WAN, and XenMobile Server
- Severity
- HIGH
- Exploitation status
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)
- Published
- 2022-03-25
Remediation guidance
CVE-2017-6316 is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate it under Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Treat it as a priority for every environment.
Apply the vendor's official security update for Citrix the affected product as soon as possible. Where a patch is unavailable, apply vendor mitigations or isolate/segment exposed systems.
Hunt for indicators of compromise tied to this vulnerability and confirm logging/EDR coverage on affected assets.
Authoritative references
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