CVE-2015-2838

high

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Nitro API in Citrix NetScaler before 10.5 build 52.3nc allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that execute arbitrary commands as nsroot via shell metacharacters in the file_name JSON member in params/xen_hotfix/0 to nitro/v1/config/xen_hotfix.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36442/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73358

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534936/100/0/threaded

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/129

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-04-03

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02098