Known exploited · Citrix
CVE-2019-11634: Citrix Workspace Application and Receiver for Windows Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
What it is
Citrix Workspace Application and Receiver for Windows contains remote code execution vulnerability resulting from local drive access preferences not being enforced into the clients' local drives.
- Vendor
- Citrix
- Product
- Workspace Application and Receiver for Windows
- Added to KEV
- November 3, 2021
- CISA due date
- May 3, 2022
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Weakness
- Not mapped by CISA
What CISA requires
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Forensic triage
No
What to do now
- Find every instance of Workspace Application and Receiver for Windows you run, including the forgotten ones, and check its version against the vendor advisory.
- Apply the vendor's fix or mitigation, before May 3, 2022 if you are bound by CISA's deadline, sooner if it faces the internet.
- Assume it was tried against you already: look for signs of exploitation from the date it was added, not from the day you patched.
References
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Start freeSource: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog (public domain), catalog version 2026.10.01.