THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-8270
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-8270

Virtual Apps And Desktops vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
3.3%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
An unprivileged Windows user on the VDA or an SMB user can perform arbitrary command execution as SYSTEM in CVAD versions before 2009, 1912 LTSR CU1 hotfixes CTX285871 and CTX285872, 7.15 LTSR CU6 hotfix CTX285341 and CTX285342
Affected vendor
Citrix
Affected product
Virtual Apps And Desktops
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-78 — OS Command Injection
Published
2020-11-16

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-8270

  • Confirm whether Citrix Virtual Apps And Desktops is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-8270.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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