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CVE-2020-8197

Status: ModifiedHigh (8.8)—

Privilege escalation vulnerability on Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway versions before 13.0-58.30, 12.1-57.18, 12.0-63.21, 11.1-64.14 and 10.5-70.18 allows a low privileged user with management access to execute arbitrary commands.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (3)

Citrix — Application Delivery Controller FirmwareCitrix — Gateway FirmwareCitrix — Netscaler Gateway Firmware

CWEs

References

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