CVE-2002-2426

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 and 4.5, MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0, and Access Essentials 1.0 through 2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary published applications, and possibly other programs, as authenticated users via the InitialProgram key in an ICA connection. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Citrix Access Essentials: 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 (and their updates)
Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server: 3.0 (and their updates)
Citrix Presentation Server: 4.0, 4.5 (and their updates)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.org/0210-exploits/hackingcitrix.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/27633
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX115245
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/citrix-owning-the-legitimate-backdoor/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26451
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018962
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3870
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0210-exploits/hackingcitrix.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/27633
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX115245
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/citrix-owning-the-legitimate-backdoor/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26451

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