NVD / CVE Program· CNA Citrix

CVE-2024-12284: Authenticated privilege escalation

HighCVSS 8.8 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 39/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 13.3% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 96.4% of all records.
Someone on the same network segment can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
Fixed version: NetScaler Agent 38.53, 56.18; NetScaler Console 38.53, 56.18.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to NetScaler Agent 38.53, 56.18; NetScaler Console 38.53, 56.18 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Authenticated privilege escalation in NetScaler Console and NetScaler Agent allows.

BDU:2025-01961

Published: Feb 19, 2025
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 13.3% · 96th percentile
CWE: CWE-269

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 4 / 30 · 13.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · Citrix: 8.8; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
citrix	netscaler agent	cpe:2.3:a:citrix:netscaler_agent
citrix	netscaler console	cpe:2.3:a:citrix:netscaler_console

Affected versions

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

citrix netscaler agent13.1-4.43 and later · before 13.1-56.18
citrix netscaler agent14.1-4.42 and later · before 14.1-38.53
citrix netscaler agent13.0-58.30
citrix netscaler console13.1
citrix netscaler console14.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Citrix). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

NetScaler Agent
- 14.1 and later · before 38.53affected · patch
- 13.1 and later · before 56.18affected · patch
NetScaler Console
- 14.1 and later · before 38.53affected · patch
- 13.1 and later · before 56.18affected · patch

Same product

citrix: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2024-6236Denial of Service in NetScaler Console (formerly NetScaler ADM), NetScaler Agent, and NetScaler SDX
28Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
NetScaler Agent	38.53	Vendor (CNA)
NetScaler Agent	56.18	Vendor (CNA)
NetScaler Console	38.53	Vendor (CNA)
NetScaler Console	56.18	Vendor (CNA)

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

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

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

All researchers

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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

Cloud Software GroupHackerOne · paid

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

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone on the same network segment can trigger it.
Administrator privileges are required.
No user action is required.
Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Attack vector: Adjacent
Attack complexity: High
Privileges required: High
User interaction: None
Scope: X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Root cause

To simplify setup, a service account is granted broad, cluster-wide permissions. The principle of least privilege is skipped during installation.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-269 class

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

Vulnerable

yaml

1kind: ClusterRole
2rules:
3  - apiGroups: ["*"]
4    resources: ["*"]
5    verbs: ["*"]

Fixed

yaml

1kind: Role
2metadata:
3  namespace: lodos-system
4rules:
5  - apiGroups: ["apps"]
6    resources: ["deployments"]
7    verbs: ["get", "list", "update"]

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Abuse Elevation Control MechanismT1548

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

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References

support.citrix.com/s/article/CTX692579-netscaler-console-and-netscaler-agent-security-bulletin-for-cve202412284?language=en_US

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