About Citrix Workspace app for Windows. Add accounts or switch servers. Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) Change how desktops look and work. Configure composite USB device redirection. Citrix Ready workspace hub. Use Configuration Checker to validate single sign-on configuration. Display your devices in the desktop viewer. Citrix Workspace app (CWA) for Windows version 1808 CWA for Windows version 1808 provides improvements in graphics quality for sessions using legacy graphics mode (GDI graphics mode), when DPI Scaling is enabled on the client.
Solution
Path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesCitrixICA ClientEngineLockdown ProfilesAll Regions
Name: EnableLockdown
Value: 0
Type: DWORD
Problem Cause
Conflicting LockDown Profile settings for the Workspace App.
Set InstantiatedSecurityPolicyEditabledefault to false (See CTX128792 for further details)
Note: Restarting Citrix Workspace app and Receiver is not sufficient to apply the changes, the operating system must be rebooted.
What Customers Should Do
A new version of Citrix Workspace app and Receiver for Windows has been released. Citrix strongly recommends that customers upgrade Citrix Workspace app to version 1904 or later and Receiver for Windows to LTSR 4.9 CU6 version 4.9.6001.
The new Citrix Workspace app version is available from the following Citrix website location:
The new LTSR version is available from the following Citrix website location:
Single Sign-on (SSO) could stop working, after applying the security update, for browsers other than Internet Explorer unless explicitly configured. Use the following documentation to ensure proper configuration post fix installation:
Acknowledgements
Citrix thanks Ollie Whitehouse, Richard Warren and Martin Hill of NCC Group for working with us to protect Citrix customers.
What Citrix Is Doing
Citrix is notifying customers and channel partners about this potential security issue. This article is also available from the Citrix Knowledge Center at http://support.citrix.com/.
Obtaining Support on This Issue
If you require technical assistance with this issue, please contact Citrix Technical Support. Contact details for Citrix Technical Support are available at https://www.citrix.com/support/open-a-support-case.html.
Reporting Security Vulnerabilities
Citrix welcomes input regarding the security of its products and considers any and all potential vulnerabilities seriously. For guidance on how to report security-related issues to Citrix, please see the following document: CTX081743 – Reporting Security Issues to Citrix
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Changelog
Citrix Downloads Workspace App Windows
| Date | Change |
| 13th May 2019 | Initial publishing |
| 17th May 2019 | Clarified affected version statement |
| 24th May 2019 | Added 'Mitigating Factors' section |