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CVE-2020-8196

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-8196 is an improper access control vulnerability in Citrix ADC, Gateway, and SD-WAN WANOP appliances that allows low-privileged users to gain limited information disclosure. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and requires low privileges, but its impact is limited to confidentiality. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, notably by Chinese state-sponsored actors, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, despite a lack of publicly available exploit code on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 10.5, < 10.5-70.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:citrix:application_delivery_controller_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.1, < 11.1-64.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:citrix:application_delivery_controller_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 12.0, < 12.0-63.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:citrix:application_delivery_controller_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 12.1, < 12.1-57.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:citrix:application_delivery_controller_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 13.0, < 13.0-58.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:citrix:application_delivery_controller_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
26.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Nov 3, 2021
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2633 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 21,939 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

citrixvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
packetstormsecurity.com / files/160047/Citrix-ADC-NetScaler-Local-File-Inclusion.html
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
support.citrix.com / article/CTX276688
Vendor Advisory