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CVE-2018-18014· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

* Lack of authentication in Citrix Xen Mobile through 10.8 allows low-privileged local users to execute system commands as root by making re

* Lack of authentication in Citrix Xen Mobile through 10.8 allows low-privileged local users to execute system commands as root by making requests to private services listening on ports 8000, 30000 and 30001. NOTE: the vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability, stating it is "already mitigated by the internal firewall that limits access to configuration services to localhost.

MediumCVSS 4.8 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Oct 24, 2018
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
0.5% · 39th percentile
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Action score

19

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
19 / 40 · 4.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.5%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

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Affected systems

VendorProduct
citrixxenmobile server

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • citrix xenmobile serverup to 10.8.0 inclusive

Same product

citrix: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2020-8209Improper access control in Citrix XenMobile Server 10.12 before RP2, Citrix XenMobile Server 10.11 before RP4, Citrix XenMobile Server 10.10
    45Plan
  • CVE-2018-10653There is an XML External Entity (XXE) Processing Vulnerability in Citrix XenMobile Server 10.8 before RP2 and 10.7 before RP3.
    41Plan
  • CVE-2020-8212Improper access control in Citrix XenMobile Server 10.12 before RP3, Citrix XenMobile Server 10.11 before RP6, Citrix XenMobile Server 10.10
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2020-8211Improper input validation in Citrix XenMobile Server 10.12 before RP3, Citrix XenMobile Server 10.11 before RP6, Citrix XenMobile Server 10.
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2018-10648There are Unauthenticated File Upload Vulnerabilities in Citrix XenMobile Server 10.8 before RP2 and 10.7 before RP3.
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2021-44520In Citrix XenMobile Server through 10.12 RP9, there is an Authenticated Command Injection vulnerability, leading to remote code execution wi
    37Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
low · data can be read
Integrity
low · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
low · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
Low
Integrity impact
Low
Availability impact
Low

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

nvd-secondary

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-287 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
// Route added later skips the middlewareapp.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

Fixed

ts
const admin = express.Router();admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
admin.post("/config", updateConfig);app.use("/admin", admin);

Attack context

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Change log

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