Threats / Citrix / CVE-2024-8069
CVE-2024-8069
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Verified 2026-08-04
Citrix Session Recording vulnerability
Citrix Session Recording contains a deserialization vulnerability allowing authenticated intranet users to execute code with NetworkService privileges.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
An authenticated attacker on the same intranet can exploit unsafe deserialization in Citrix Session Recording to achieve limited remote code execution under the NetworkService account context.
CISA KEV Yes · 2025-08-255EPSS 0.14736 (verify live)6Exploit Weaponized · public PoC7CVSS 5.13CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Impact: total4
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreExploit available
Fully weaponized — public exploit code is cataloged for this vulnerability.We link the existence of the exploit; we do not host or redistribute payloads.
Reported exploitation
29 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-08-25).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.14736 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 5.1 (CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N) · Affected: Citrix, Session Recording. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CNA-assigned (CVE.org), version 4.0, set at disclosure.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data — weakness family: Injection.CWE — CNA-assigned (CVE.org); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
CISA SSVC (triage disposition)
Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.
Currency of the record
CISA added this to its KEV catalog 286 days after the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
Gain network access to the session recording server as an authenticated intranet user.
Business
Attacker establishes initial foothold within the trusted network perimeter.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
Craft and send a malicious serialized object to the vulnerable deserialization endpoint.
Business
Attacker bypasses input validation through unsafe object deserialization.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
Execute arbitrary code with NetworkService account privileges on the recording server.
Business
Attacker gains code execution capability, potentially compromising session data and server integrity.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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