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CVE-2023-24491

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-24491 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Citrix Secure Access client for Windows. An attacker with standard user access on an affected endpoint can exploit this flaw to gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable with low attack complexity and no user interaction required, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or inclusion in the KEV catalog, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 23.5.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:secure_access_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
10.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0020 is in the 37th percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

citrixvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

support.citrix.com / article/CTX561480/citrix-secure-access-client-for-windows-security-bulletin-for-cve202324491
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