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CVE-2023-6548

High 8.8 Exploited in the wild (KEV)

Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog

Name
Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway Code Injection Vulnerability
Added to catalog
Remediation due date (US federal)
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway allows an attacker with access to NSIP, CLIP or SNIP with management interface to perform Authenticated (low privileged) remote code execution on Management Interface.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1
8.8 (HIGH) Score source: NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — exploit probability
3% (percentile: 88) as of 2 November 2026
CWE
CWE-94

Affected products

citrix: netscaler application delivery controller; citrix: netscaler gateway

References