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Citrix application breakout - take care of Microsoft calculator

Subject: Citrix application breakout - take care of Microsoft calculator
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:13:39 +0100
Dear all,

I'm not shure if the following issue is already known or exciting, nevertheless the following attack vector found during a penetration test might be interesting:

A customer has built a Citrix environment for a partner company to provide access to a specific application. This application was intended to be the only application accessible for this partner. It was possible to get a remote task manager with CRTL-F3, but no other way of interacting with the Citrix Server (e.g. through printing or so).

Unfortunately they have integrated Microsoft's calculator into the application. A bad idea - guess why ;-).

Using the calculator you are able to do funny stuff: Open the calculator and click "info". Klick on the licence agreement and here you go, you have got an editor. With this you can use "open file" and browse the server, find for example Word and rightclick on "Open" - Word is running, and all other applications which you like as well ...

I think this can easily be fixed using more restrictive file permissions, but I thought maybe some of you might find this information useful.

Stefan

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