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Secunia Advisory SA30271

Citrix Presentation Server Weakness and Unauthorised Access
Secunia Advisory SA30271
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Release Date 2008-05-15
Last Update 2008-05-22
   
Popularity 6,021 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Security Bypass
Where From local network
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Citrix Access Essentials 1.x
Citrix Access Essentials 2.x
Citrix Desktop Server 1.x
Citrix Presentation Server 4.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-2299 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-2300 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability and a weakness have been reported in Citrix Presentation Server, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions.

1) An unspecified error within access control to published applications and published desktops can be exploited to access a desktop session without authorisation.

2) A weakness in Citrix Presentation Server when using SecureICA or ICA Basic encryption may allow a client to establish a connection with encryption settings that are lower than the minimum configured by the administrator.

NOTE: This weakness does not affect the use of SSL/TLS by Citrix Presentation Server.

The vulnerability and weakness affect the following products and versions:
* Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 for Windows Server 2003
* Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 for Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions
* Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 for Windows 2000 Server (only affected by vulnerability #1)
* Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 for Windows Server 2003
* Citrix Access Essentials 2.0
* Citrix Access Essentials 1.5
* Citrix Access Essentials 1.0
* Citrix Desktop Server 1.0 for Windows Server 2003
* Citrix Desktop Server 1.0 for Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions (only affected by vulnerability #1)


Solution
Apply hotfixes (see vendor advisories for details).
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
CTX114893:
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX114893

CTX116941:
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX116941

Deep Links
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