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HIGH

CVE-2024-7889

CVE-2024-7889 — Local privilege escalation allows a low-privileged user to gain SYSTEM privileges

Local privilege escalation allows a low-privileged user to gain SYSTEM privileges in Citrix Workspace app for Windows

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, Citrix

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

0%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

citrix

2 products listed

CVSS base

7

HIGH

CISA SSVC assessment

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

CISA

Exploitation

None

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

No

can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Total

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

citrix

Products (2)

citrix workspace app for windowsworkspace app

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
7CVSS 4.0HIGH——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-664

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

  • T1134.002Access Token Manipulation: Create Process with Token
  • T1134.003Access Token Manipulation: Make and Impersonate Token
  • T1606Forge Web Credentials

References

1 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • citrixevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-664other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.