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NetScaler SDX Denial of Service (CTX677998)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202323

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Synopsis

The remote device may be affected by a denial of service.

Description

The remote NetScaler SDX device is version 13.0 before 13.0-92.31, 13.1 before 13.1-53.17, or 14.1 before 14.1-25.53.
It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An unauthenticated, adjacent attacker can exploit this issue to cause the process to stop responding.

Please refer to advisory CTX584986 for more information.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to version 13.0-92.31, 13.1-53.17, 14.1-25.53, or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?145c970a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 202323

File Name: netscaler_sdx_CTX677998.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: combined

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 7/12/2024

Updated: 6/9/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6236

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Threat Score: 4.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/h:citrix:netscaler_sdx

Required KB Items: Host/NetScaler/Detected

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-6236

IAVA: 2024-A-0379