Citrix fixed a critical flaw in Secure Access Client for Ubuntu

Citrix fixed a critical flaw affecting the Secure Access client for Ubuntu that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution.

Citrix addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-24492 (CVSS score of 9.6), affecting the Secure Access client for Ubuntu that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution.

An attacker can trigger the vulnerability by tricking the victim into opening a specially crafted link and accepting further prompts.

The vulnerability affects versions of Citrix Secure Access client for Ubuntu before 23.5.2, the issue has been addressed in 23.5.2 and later releases.

The vulnerability was reported by Rilke Petrosky of F2TC Cyber Security.

The advisory published by the company did not reveal if the vulnerability has been actively exploited by threat actors in the wild.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.