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Citrix lists NetScaler builds that fix the exploited PHP2Shell flaws

Affected
Customer-managed NetScaler ADC and Gateway 14.1 and 13.1, and their FIPS and NDcPP builds, before the builds below. All versions and fixes

Citrix says the PHP flaws known as PHP2Shell, and , affect customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. On Oct 27 it updated its bulletin with the builds that fix them and urged customers to install them as soon as possible. CISA added both flaws to its KEV catalog on Oct 26. Citrix says it has fixed its managed cloud services, and that its other on-premises products aren’t affected.

Citrix first published its bulletin on Oct 22 and rates it critical. It changed the builds it lists as fixed on Oct 27, including the FIPS and NDcPP builds. The bulletin points to a Citrix blog post on protecting NetScaler management access from the flaws for mitigation guidance.

Citrix lists its other on-premises products as not affected, among them NetScaler Console, Secure Access, Secure Private Access, Virtual Apps and Desktops, Workspace app, StoreFront, Endpoint Management and XenServer.

Wiz, which found the flaws, said on Oct 27 that none of the exploitation attempts it has captured succeeded. It hasn’t found a public exploit that works end to end against an arbitrary target. The attempts on the flaws used two versions of one open-source exploit kit. The older hit PHP’s request size limit, and the newer exhausted PHP’s memory but failed to leak the addresses its next stage needs.

Wiz says the daily count of vulnerable, internet-exposed machines it sees fell about 67% in the days after disclosure. A week after disclosure, fewer than 53% of the organizations first affected were still vulnerable.

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Affected and fixed versions

  • Product
    NetScaler ADC and Gateway 14.1
    Affected
    Builds before 14.1-73.49
    Fixed
    14.1-73.49 or later
  • Product
    NetScaler ADC and Gateway 13.1
    Affected
    Builds before 13.1-64.32
    Fixed
    13.1-64.32 or later releases of 13.1
  • Product
    NetScaler ADC 14.1-FIPS
    Affected
    Before 14.1-73.49 FIPS
    Fixed
    14.1-73.49 FIPS or later
  • Product
    NetScaler ADC 13.1-FIPS and 13.1-NDcPP
    Affected
    Before 13.1.37.286
    Fixed
    13.1.37.286 or later

Timeline

  1. Oct 22Citrix publishes its bulletin and lists NetScaler ADC and Gateway as affected.
  2. Oct 26CISA adds both flaws to KEV.
  3. Oct 27Citrix updates the fixed NetScaler builds in its bulletin.

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