CVE-2020-8195: Citrix ADC, Gateway, and SD-WAN WANOP Appliance Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Name: Citrix ADC, Gateway, and SD-WAN WANOP Appliance Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Vendor: Citrix
Product: Application Delivery Controller (ADC), Gateway, and SD-WAN WANOP Appliance
Added to the catalog: 2021-11-03
Due date for US federal agencies: 2022-05-03
Weaknesses: CWE-20
Catalog version: 2026.10.30

Citrix ADC, Citrix Gateway, and multiple Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliance models contain an information disclosure vulnerability.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Ransomware use: CISA does not mark known use of this vulnerability in ransomware campaigns.

Links in CISA's notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8195

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NVD analysis

Status: Analyzed
Published: 2020-07-10T16:15:12.327
Last modified: 2026-06-17T03:26:01.840
Weaknesses: CWE-20, CWE-22

Improper input validation in Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway versions before 13.0-58.30, 12.1-57.18, 12.0-63.21, 11.1-64.14 and 10.5-70.18 and Citrix SDWAN WAN-OP versions before 11.1.1a, 11.0.3d and 10.2.7 resulting in limited information disclosure to low privileged users.

Metric	Score	Severity	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	6.5	MEDIUM	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	[email protected] (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	6.5	MEDIUM	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0	4	MEDIUM	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N	[email protected] (Primary)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160047/Citrix-ADC-NetScaler-Local-File-Inclusion.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX276688 (Vendor Advisory)
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160047/Citrix-ADC-NetScaler-Local-File-Inclusion.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX276688 (Vendor Advisory)
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-8195 (US Government Resource)

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CVE record

Assigner: hackerone
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2020-07-10T15:39:35.000Z
Updated: 2025-10-21T23:35:40.642Z
Problem types: Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)

References

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX276688
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160047/Citrix-ADC-NetScaler-Local-File-Inclusion.html

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Detection rules (SigmaHQ)

SigmaHQ rules whose own tags name this CVE. Each rule page shows the rule as its author published it.

Citrix ADS Exploitation CVE-2020-8193 CVE-2020-8195 (status test, level critical)

Defensive techniques (MITRE D3FEND)

D3FEND maps these defensive techniques to the weakness (CWE) that NVD lists for this CVE, through the digital artifacts the weakness affects. D3FEND does not say they stop this vulnerability.

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Harden: Variable Initialization (acts on Subroutine)
Model: Asset Vulnerability Enumeration (acts on Software)
Isolate: Application-based Process Isolation (acts on Subroutine)
Restore: Restore Software (acts on Software)
Harden: Credential Scrubbing (acts on Subroutine)
Model: Software Inventory (acts on Software)
Harden: Software Update (acts on Software)
Harden: Trusted Library (acts on Subroutine)
Harden: Domain Logic Validation (acts on Subroutine)

D3FEND ontology version 1.6.0.

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CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Isolate: Application-based Process Isolation (acts on Subroutine)
Model: Software Inventory (acts on Software)
Harden: Variable Initialization (acts on Subroutine)
Harden: Software Update (acts on Software)
Harden: Domain Logic Validation (acts on Subroutine)
Restore: Restore Software (acts on Software)
Model: Asset Vulnerability Enumeration (acts on Software)
Harden: Trusted Library (acts on Subroutine)
Harden: Credential Scrubbing (acts on Subroutine)

D3FEND ontology version 1.6.0.

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CISA
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SigmaHQ
"Citrix ADS Exploitation CVE-2020-8193 CVE-2020-8195" by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) (SigmaHQ). Rule: https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/rules-emerging-threats/2020/Exploits/CVE-2020-8193/web_cve_2020_8193_8195_citrix_exploit.yml.
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Cite this page

Dragons Eye Ransomware Tracker, "CVE-2020-8195: Citrix ADC, Gateway, and SD-WAN WANOP Appliance Information Disclosure Vulnerability",
entity page, dataset version ref-baf12a7231ea, updated 2026-11-02T23:39:54.475Z,
https://ransomware-tracker.com/cve/CVE-2020-8195 (accessed 2026-11-03).
Underlying source: CISA Catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, version 2026.10.30.
Underlying source: National Vulnerability Database (NIST), CVE API 2.0, record last modified 2026-06-17T03:26:01.840.
Underlying source: CVE List (CVE Program, The MITRE Corporation), record updated 2025-10-21T23:35:40.642Z.
Underlying source: SigmaHQ rule 0d0d9a8a-a49e-4e27-b061-7ce4b936cfb7, commit ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84.
Underlying source: MITRE D3FEND, ontology version 1.6.0.

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