CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-8257

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Dec 14, 2020 | Modified: Dec 16, 2020
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Improper privilege management on services run by Citrix Gateway Plug-in for Windows, versions before and including 13.0-61.48 and 12.1-58.15, lead to privilege escalation attacks

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gateway_plug-in Citrix 12.0 (including) 12.1-58.15 (including)
Gateway_plug-in Citrix 13.0 (including) 13.0-61.48 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References