Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2020-8193

Citrix ADC, Gateway, and SD-WAN WANOP Appliance Authorization Bypass Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Citrix
Product Application Delivery Controller (ADC), Gateway, and SD-WAN WANOP Appliance
Weakness CWE-284

The vulnerability

Citrix ADC, Citrix Gateway, and multiple Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliance models contain an authorization bypass vulnerability that may allow unauthenticated access to certain URL endpoints. The attacker must have access to the NetScaler IP (NSIP) in order to perform exploitation.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 3 May 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 00:29. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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