CVE-2020-8274
Published: 06 January 2021
Summary
CVE-2020-8274 is a medium-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability in Citrix Secure Mail. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 22.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-29142
Vulnerability details
Citrix Secure Mail for Android before 20.11.0 suffers from Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') by allowing unauthenticated access to read data stored within Secure Mail. Note that a malicious app would need to be installed on the…
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Android device or a threat actor would need to execute arbitrary code on the Android device.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Makes persistent code injection into loaded programs impossible when the executable image itself resides on hardware-protected read-only media.
Dynamically generated code can be produced and executed inside the isolated chamber, preventing host compromise from code-injection payloads.
Validates inputs used in dynamic code generation to block injected directives.
Directly prevents execution of attacker-supplied code written into data memory regions.