Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Summary

CVECVE-2022-27518
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-12-13 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-18 18:15:00 UTC
DescriptionUnauthenticated remote arbitrary code execution

Risk And Classification

EPSS: 0.276870000 probability, percentile 0.964620000 (date 2026-04-22)

CISA KEV: Listed on 2022-12-13; due 2023-01-03; ransomware use Unknown

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

VendorCitrix
ProductApplication Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway
NameCitrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Required ActionApply updates per vendor instructions.
Noteshttps://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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Citrix Application Delivery Controller - All All All
Operating System Citrix Application Delivery Controller Firmware All All All All
Operating System Citrix Application Delivery Controller Firmware All All All All
Operating System Citrix Application Delivery Controller Firmware All All All All
Hardware Citrix Gateway - All All All
Operating System Citrix Gateway Firmware All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway Security Bulletin for CVE-2022-27518 MISC support.citrix.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog CISA www.cisa.gov kev

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 150626 Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Citrix Gateway Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability (CVE-2022-27518)
  • 377825 Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Citrix Gateway Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability (CTX474995)
  • 730712 Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Citrix Gateway Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability (CTX474995)
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