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Medium severity4.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 24, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-18014

CVE-2018-18014

Description

Lack of authentication in Citrix Xen Mobile through 10.8 allows low-privileged local users to execute system commands as root by making requests to private services listening on ports 8000, 30000 and 30001. NOTE: the vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability, stating it is "already mitigated by the internal firewall that limits access to configuration services to localhost.

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Affected products

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Citrix Systems/Xenmobile Server
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenmobile_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=10.8.0
Citrix Systems/Xenmobilellm-create
Range: <=10.8

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References

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advisories.dxw.com/advisories/xen-mobile-backing-service-allows-unauthenticated-local-users-to-execute-system-commands-as-root/nvdExploitThird Party Advisory

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