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Citrix ADC (NetScaler) Forms SSO Target RCE

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Disclosed
Jul 18, 2023
Created
Aug 3, 2023

Description

A vulnerability exists within Citrix ADC that allows an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a stack buffer
overflow of the nsppe process by making a specially crafted HTTP GET request. Successful exploitation results in
remote code execution as root.

Authors

Ron Bowes
Douglass McKee
Spencer McIntyre
rwincey

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/freebsd/http/citrix_formssso_target_rce
    msf exploit(citrix_formssso_target_rce) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(citrix_formssso_target_rce) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(citrix_formssso_target_rce) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(citrix_formssso_target_rce) > exploit
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