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.
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)
Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX267027 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- VU#619785 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_CERT-VN
- https://twitter.com/bad_packets/status/1215431625766424576 x_refsource_MISC
- https://badpackets.net/over-25000-citrix-netscaler-endpoints-vulnerable-to-cve-2019-19781/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://forms.gle/eDf3DXZAv96oosfj6 x_refsource_MISC
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155904/Citrix-Application-Delivery-Controller-Gateway-Remote-Code-Execution.html x_refsource_MISC
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155930/Citrix-Application-Delivery-Controller-Gateway-10.5-Remote-Code-Execution.html x_refsource_MISC
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155905/Citrix-Application-Delivery-Controller-Gateway-Remote-Code-Execution-Traversal.html x_refsource_MISC
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155947/Citrix-ADC-NetScaler-Directory-Traversal-Remote-Code-Execution.html x_refsource_MISC
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155972/Citrix-ADC-Gateway-Path-Traversal.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-19781 government-resource