CVE-2024-12284 is a high-severity authenticated privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Citrix NetScaler Console and NetScaler Agent. With a CVSS score of 8.8, it allows a low-privileged authenticated attacker to gain full control over the system, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including a mention in a CSO Online article regarding March Patch Tuesday warnings. Organizations using affected products should prioritize patching to mitigate this significant risk.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 13.1-4.43, < 13.1-56.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:citrix:netscaler_agent:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
>= 14.1-4.42, < 14.1-38.53CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:citrix:netscaler_agent:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
13.0-58.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:citrix:netscaler_agent:13.0-58.30:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:citrix:netscaler_console:13.1:build12.50:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:citrix:netscaler_console:13.1:build17.42:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
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