CVE-2020-8257 is a critical improper privilege management vulnerability affecting Citrix Gateway Plug-in for Windows versions up to and including 13.0-61.48 and 12.1-58.15, allowing for privilege escalation. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a high-impact threat (confidentiality, integrity, availability) that can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and no user interaction. Despite its severity, there is currently no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 12.0, <= 12.1-58.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:citrix:gateway_plug-in:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* | ||
>= 13.0, <= 13.0-61.48CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:citrix:gateway_plug-in:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.