Citrix published on May, 9th a new Security Bulletin for NetScaler ADC and Netscaler Gateway. The severity is rated as medium. AXACOM is recommending to upgrade the NetScaler ADCs and Gateways in the next few days according to the Citrix CTX477714.
Please monitor as well the Citrix CTX article under the following link:
Vulnerabilities have been discovered in Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway listed below, that, if exploited, could result in the following security issues:
Impacted Products, Versions and Components
The following supported versions of Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway are affected by this vulnerability:
Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway 13.1 before 13.1-45.61
Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway 13.0 before 13.0-90.11
Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway 12.1 before 12.1-65.35
Citrix ADC 12.1-FIPS before 12.1-55.296
Citrix ADC 12.1-NDcPP before 12.1-55.296
This bulletin only applies to customer-managed Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway. Customers using Citrix-managed cloud services or Citrix-managed Adaptive Authentication do not need to take any action.
CVE ID
Description
Pre-requisites
CWE
CVSS
CVE-2023-24488
Cross site scripting
Appliance must be configured as a Gateway (SSL VPN, ICA Proxy, CVPN, RDP Proxy) OR AAA virtual server
Affected customers of Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway are recommended to install the relevant updated versions of Citrix ADC or Citrix Gateway as soon as possible:
Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway 13.1-45.61 and later releases
Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway 13.0-90.11 and later releases of 13.0
Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway 12.1-65.35 and later releases of 12.1
Citrix ADC 12.1-FIPS 12.1-55.296 and later releases of 12.1-FIPS
Citrix ADC 13.1-FIPS 13.1-37.150 and later releases of 13.1-FIPS
Citrix ADC 12.1-NDcPP 12.1-55.296 and later releases of 12.1-NDcPP
Vulnerabilities have been discovered in Citrix Gateway and Citrix ADC, listed below. Note that only appliances that are operating as a Gateway (appliances using the SSL VPN functionality or deployed as an ICA proxy with authentication enabled) are affected by the first issue, which is rated as a Critical severity vulnerability.
CVE-ID
Description
CWE
Affected Products
Pre-conditions
CVE-2022-27510
Unauthorized access to Gateway user capabilities
CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Citrix Gateway, Citrix ADC
Appliance must be configured as a VPN (Gateway)
CVE-2022-27513
Remote desktop takeover via phishing
CWE-345: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
Citrix Gateway, Citrix ADC
Appliance must be configured as a VPN (Gateway) and the RDP proxy functionality must be configured
CVE-2022-27516
User login brute force protection functionality bypass
CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure
Citrix Gateway, Citrix ADC
Appliance must be configured as a VPN (Gateway) OR AAA virtual server and the user lockout functionality “Max Login Attempts” must be configured
The following supported versions of Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway are affected by this vulnerability:
Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway 13.1 before 13.1-33.47
Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway 13.0 before 13.0-88.12
Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway 12.1 before 12.1.65.21
Citrix ADC 12.1-FIPS before 12.1-55.289
Citrix ADC 12.1-NDcPP before 12.1-55.289
This bulletin only applies to customer-managed Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway appliances. Customers using Citrix-managed cloud services do not need to take any action.
A vulnerability has been discovered in Citrix Gateway Plug-in for Windows (Citrix Secure Access for Windows). If exploited, this issue would allow an adversary, who has gained local access to a computer with Citrix Gateway Plug-in installed, to corrupt or delete files as SYSTEM. This issue has the following identifier:
CVE-ID
Description
CWE
Pre-conditions
CVE-2022-21827
Arbitrary corruption or deletion of files as SYSTEM
CWE-284: Improper Access Control
Local access to a machine that has the vulnerable plug-in installed
The following supported versions of Citrix Gateway Plug-in for Windows (Citrix Secure Access for Windows) are affected by this vulnerability:
Citrix Gateway Plug-in for Windows versions before 21.9.1.2
What Customers Should Do
This issue has been addressed in the following versions of Citrix Gateway Plug-in for Windows (Citrix Secure Access for Windows):
Citrix Gateway Plug-in for Windows version 21.9.1.2 and later releases
A zero-day exploit affecting the Spring Framework versions (5.3.0 to 5.3.17, 5.2.0 to 5.2.19, and older versions was made public on March 30, 2022, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Citrix recommends that customers hosting affected web applications follow Spring’s recommendations. In addition, Citrix Web App Firewall (WAF) customers should consider the following recommendations to improve the security of their applications from this vulnerability.
The Citrix research team has released updated Citrix WAF signatures designed to mitigate in part the CVE-2022-22963, CVE-2022-22965 vulnerability. If you are using any of these Spring Framework versions (5.3.0 to 5.3.17, 5.2.0 to 5.2.19, and older versions), Citrix strongly recommends that you download the signatures version 79 and apply to your Citrix WAF deployments as an additional layer of protection for your applications. Signatures are compatible with the following software versions of Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) 11.1, 12.0, 12.1, 13.0 and 13.1. Please note, versions 11.1 and 12.0 are end of life.
Citrix ADC Produkte sind selber nicht von der Sicherheitslücke betroffen.
Für alle Kunden, welche WAF nicht im Einsatz haben, gibt es auch eine Empfehlung seitens Citrix, die Sicherheitslücke mittels Responder Policy zu minimieren:
Citrix ADC Standard and Advanced edition customers, as well as Premium edition customers who do not have WAF signatures enabled, can use responder policies for protection as shown below. Please bind the responder policy to the appropriate bind point (vserver or global).
add responder policy mitigate_cve_2022_22963_22965 q^(HTTP.REQ.FULL_HEADER. SET_TEXT_MODE(URLENCODED).DECODE_USING_TEXT_MODE.
CONTAINS("spring.cloud.function.routing-expression") || HTTP.REQ.BODY(8192).SET_TEXT_MODE(URLENCODED).DECODE_USING_TEXT_MODE.CONTAINS(".classLoader"))^ DROP
Citrix recommends that Citrix WAF customers use the latest signature version, enable signatures auto-update, and subscribe to receive signature alert notifications. Citrix will continue to monitor this dynamic situation and update as new mitigations become available.
If any of your application availability is inadvertently impacted due to false positives resulting from above mentioned mitigation policies, Citrix recommends the following modifications to the policy. Please note that any end point covered by the exception_list may expose those assets to the risks from CVE-2022-22963, CVE-2022-22965.
