The cert coordination center cert cc has released information on a vulnerability affecting citrix application delivery controller and citrix gateway.
Citrix application delivery controller.
An application delivery controller employs algorithms and policies to determine how inbound application traffic is distributed.
A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code on a targeted system.
Is impacted by these vulnerabilities.
Citrix application delivery controller citrix gateway and citrix sd wan wanop appliance security update.
Many also provide load balancing adcs are often placed in the dmz between the outer firewall or router and a web farm.
Citrix application delivery controller citrix gateway and citrix sd wan wanop appliance security update.
Citrix recommends that customers using this version upgrade to a later version that addresses these issues.
This vulnerability was detected in exploits in the wild.
Security bulletin medium.
A site must have at least one controller.
Round robin which forwards client requests to each server in turn is a fairly rudimentary form of load balancing.
On january 22 2020 citrix released security updates for vulnerable sd wan wanop appliances.
An application delivery controller adc is a computer network device in a datacenter often part of an application delivery network adn that helps perform common tasks such as those done by web accelerators to remove load from the web servers themselves.
Controllers also provide the machine creation services that create desktop and server images.
Simplify your application deployment across traditional and cloud.
The delivery controller is the server side component that is responsible for managing user access plus brokering and optimizing connections.
Citrix adc formerly netscaler adc is the most comprehensive application delivery and load balancing solution for application security holistic visibility and operational consistency for monolithic and microservices based applications across hybrid multi cloud.