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CVE-2020-8269

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-8269 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, XenApp, and XenDesktop, allowing an unprivileged Windows user on a Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) to achieve arbitrary command execution as SYSTEM. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2006CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:virtual_apps_and_desktops:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
>= 1903, <= 1912CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:virtual_apps_and_desktops:*:*:*:*:ltsr:*:*:*
< 7.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenapp:*:*:*:*:ltsr:*:*:*
>= 7.7, < 7.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenapp:*:*:*:*:ltsr:*:*:*
7.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenapp:7.6:-:*:*:ltsr:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0257 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 17,823 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

citrixpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

support.citrix.com / article/CTX285059
PatchVendor Advisory