How severe is CVE-2022-27518?

CVE-2022-27518 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2022-27518: Unauthenticated remote arbitrary code

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway Authentication Bypass Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-12-13

Remediation due

2023-01-03

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2022/12/13/critical-security-update-now-available-for-citrix-adc-citrix-gateway/; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-27518

Description

Unauthenticated remote arbitrary code execution

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA9.8 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
Citrix	Citrix Gateway, Citrix ADC	12.1 13.0 12.1 FIPs, NDcPP

References

1 Links

Other references

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX474995

Record Details

Published

2022-12-13

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

Citrix

Credited to

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