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CVE-2020-8246 — Citrix Application Delivery Controller Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway 13.0 before 13.0-64.35, Citrix ADC and NetScaler Gateway 12.1 before 12.1-58.15, Citrix ADC 12.1-FIPS before 12.1-55.187, Citrix ADC and NetScaler Gateway 12.0, Citrix ADC and NetScaler Gateway 11.1 before 11.1-65.12, Citrix SD-WAN WANOP 11.2 before 11.2.1a, Citrix SD-WAN WANOP 11.1 before 11.1.2a, Citrix SD-WAN WANOP 11.0 before 11.0.3f, Citrix SD-WAN WANOP 10.2 before 10.2.7b are vulnerable to a denial of service attack originating from the management network.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2020-09-18
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

  • citrix / application_delivery_controller_firmware
  • citrix / gateway
  • citrix / netscaler_gateway
  • citrix / sd-wan_wanop

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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