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CVE-2015-2838

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.

Published

2015-04-03T14:59:01.240

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.8 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-352

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	citrix	netscaler	10.5	Yes

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130937/Citrix-NITRO-SDK-Command-Injection.html Exploit ([email protected])
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/129 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534936/100/0/threaded ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73358 ([email protected])
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36442/ ([email protected])
https://www.securify.nl/advisory/SFY20140806/command_injection_vulnerability_in_citrix_nitro_sdk_xen_hotfix_page.html Exploit ([email protected])
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130937/Citrix-NITRO-SDK-Command-Injection.html Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/129 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534936/100/0/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73358 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36442/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.securify.nl/advisory/SFY20140806/command_injection_vulnerability_in_citrix_nitro_sdk_xen_hotfix_page.html Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)