How severe is CVE-2017-6316?

CVE-2017-6316 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 73.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2017-6316: Citrix Multiple Products Remote Code Execution

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Citrix Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-25

Remediation due

2022-04-15

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6316

Description

Citrix NetScaler SD-WAN devices through v9.1.2.26.561201 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands as root via a CGISESSID cookie. On CloudBridge (the former name of NetScaler SD-WAN) devices, the cookie name was CAKEPHP rather than CGISESSID.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA9.8 CRITICAL

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

5 Links

Exploits & PoCs

Vulnerability databases

Other references

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX225990

Record Details

Published

2017-07-20

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

mitre

Credited to

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