CVE-2015-2838

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-04-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

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.

Affected products

Citrix Netscaler: 10.5 (and their updates)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130937/Citrix-NITRO-SDK-Command-Injection.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/129
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534936/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73358
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36442/
https://www.securify.nl/advisory/SFY20140806/command_injection_vulnerability_in_citrix_nitro_sdk_xen_hotfix_page.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130937/Citrix-NITRO-SDK-Command-Injection.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/129
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534936/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73358
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36442/
https://www.securify.nl/advisory/SFY20140806/command_injection_vulnerability_in_citrix_nitro_sdk_xen_hotfix_page.html

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