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

Exploitation status

CVE-2017-6316 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added 2022-03-25. 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.

Advisory facts

Vendor or project

Citrix

Affected product

NetScaler SD-WAN Enterprise, CloudBridge Virtual WAN, and XenMobile Server

Added to CISA KEV

2022-03-25

US federal remediation due date

2022-04-15

Ransomware association

Unknown

EPSS score

—

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-20

Remediation: the required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

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