CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2020-8299

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS v3
NVD

Description

Citrix ADC and Citrix/NetScaler Gateway 13.0 before 13.0-76.29, 12.1-61.18, 11.1-65.20, Citrix ADC 12.1-FIPS before 12.1-55.238, and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP Edition before 11.4.0, 11.3.2, 11.3.1a, 11.2.3a, 11.1.2c, 10.2.9a suffers from uncontrolled resource consumption by way of a network-based denial-of-service from within the same Layer 2 network segment. Note that the attacker must be in the same Layer 2 network segment as the vulnerable appliance.

How to fix

Remediation Available
application delivery controller firmwareNVD
Affected:>= 12.1, < 12.1-55.238Fixed in:12.1-55.238CVE-2020-8299derived from NVD
gatewayNVD
Affected:>= 13.0, < 13.0-76.29Fixed in:13.0-76.29CVE-2020-8299derived from NVD
netscaler gatewayNVD
Affected:>= 11.1, < 11.1-65.20Fixed in:11.1-65.20CVE-2020-8299derived from NVD
sd-wan wanopNVD
Affected:>= 11.3, < 11.3.2Fixed in:11.3.2CVE-2020-8299derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorAdjacent
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.42%probability of exploitation in 30 days
34thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 34% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.