What is Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway?
Citrix NetScaler ADC, previously known as Citrix ADC, is an Application Delivery Controller (ADC) designed to achieve secure and optimized network traffic.
Citrix NetScaler Gateway, previously known as Citrix Gateway, is an SSL-VPN solution designed to provide secure and optimized remote access.
What is the Attack?
According to the blog published by Citrix, CVE-2023-4966 is a buffer overflow vulnerability that can result in unauthorized data disclosure on Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway products.
These products when configured as a gateway or as an authentication, authorization and auditing (AAA) virtual servers have this particular weakness. The advisory also states that the vulnerability is rated critical, and no workarounds are available. Only an upgrade to the affected products can mitigate the attack.
Why is this Significant?
This is significant because the Citrix blog acknowledged that CVE-2023-4966 has been exploited in the wild. Also, CISA added the vulnerability to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on Oct 18th.
The vulnerability was discovered earlier by their internal team and the advisory and related patches were published on Oct 10th.
FortiGuard Labs has available protection for the vulnerability and seeing several thousand attempts to exploit the vulnerability.
What is the Vendor Solution?
Citrix released relevant updates to the affected products since Oct 10th.
What FortiGuard Coverage is available?
FortiGuard Labs has an IPS signature “HTTP.Header.Overly.Long.Host.Field.Value (with default action is set to “block”) in place for CVE-2023-4966.
FortiGuard Labs advises users to install the relevant updated version of NetScaler ADC and NetScaler as soon as possible.
