Improper access control in Citrix Workspace app for Windows 1912 CU1 and 2006.1 causes privilege escalation and code execution when the aut…

published 2020-07-24 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-29082

cvss: 8.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.1%; EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits: 0; none known

Improper access control in Citrix Workspace app for Windows 1912 CU1 and 2006.1 causes privilege escalation and code execution when the automatic updater service is running.

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Exploit prediction

2.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.0	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

n/a Citrix Workspace App for Windows

Classification

Weakness

CWE-284 Improper Access Control
CWE-287 Improper Authentication

Technology feeds

Citrix rss critical rss

References

support.citrix.com /article/CTX277662
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-8207
NVD CVE-2020-8207

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