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CVE-2024-6286: Local Privilege escalation allows a low-privileged user to gain SYSTEM privileges

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 34/100)

  • 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: 0.38% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Citrix Citrix Workspace app for Windows 1.
  • Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Citrix Citrix Workspace app for Windows 1 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

Local Privilege escalation allows a low-privileged user to gain SYSTEM privileges in Citrix Workspace app for Windows

HighCVSS 8.5 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
Jul 10, 2024
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.3% · 32th percentile

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Action score

34

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
34 / 40 · 8.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
—
CNA · Citrix
8.5
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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

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Affected systems

Is your version affected?

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VendorProduct
citrixworkspace

Affected versions

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

  • citrix workspacebefore 2203.1
  • citrix workspacebefore 2403.1
  • citrix workspace2203.1

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.

  • Citrix Citrix Workspace app for Windows

    • 2403 and later · before 1affected · patch
    • 2402 LTSR and later · before 0affected · patch

Same product

citrix: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2020-8207Improper access control in Citrix Workspace app for Windows 1912 CU1 and 2006.1 causes privilege escalation and code execution when the auto
    36Monitor
  • CVE-2023-24485Privilege Escalation on the system running a vulnerable version of Citrix Workspace app for Windows
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2022-21825An Improper Access Control vulnerability exists in Citrix Workspace App for Linux 2012 - 2111 with App Protection installed that can allow a
    31Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-6148Jul 10, 2024 · Bypass of GACS Policy Configuration settings in Citrix Workspace app for HTML5
    21Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-6149Jul 10, 2024 · Redirection of users to a vulnerable URL in Citrix Workspace app for HTML5
    19Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2024-42423Sep 10, 2024 · Citrix Workspace App version 23.9.0.24.4 on Dell ThinOS 2311 contains an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability when Citrix CEB is enabled fo
    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 / packageFixed versionSource
Citrix Citrix Workspace app for Windows1Vendor (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

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

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.

  • CVE-2025-4879342 days apartCitrix Workspace App for Windows - Local Privilege escalation allows a low-privileged user to gain SYSTEM privileges
    29Monitor
  • CVE-2024-789063 days apartLocal privilege escalation allows a low-privileged user to gain SYSTEM privileges
    21Monitor

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.

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/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
kind: ClusterRolerules:  - apiGroups: ["*"]    resources: ["*"]    verbs: ["*"]

Fixed

yaml
kind: Rolemetadata:  namespace: lodos-systemrules:  - apiGroups: ["apps"]    resources: ["deployments"]    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.

Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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