Actively exploited · Published Dec 27, 2019 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2019-19781

Critical 9.8 Exploited Ransomware

In plain English

A critical-severity path traversal in Application Delivery Controller (ADC), Gateway, and SD-WAN WANOP Appliance from Citrix. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on November 3, 2021). It has been used in ransomware campaigns. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 100.0% (higher than 99.9% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, Nuclei, public proof-of-concept code. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)100.0%top 0.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Nov 3, 2021
Attack tooling3Metasploit, Nuclei, Public PoC

CISA guidance

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Federal agencies must remediate by May 3, 2022.

Official description

An issue was discovered in Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway 10.5, 11.1, 12.0, 12.1, and 13.0. They allow Directory Traversal.

Affected products (as reported)

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Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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