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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-352
- EPSS score
- 2.9% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2015-2926)
- Published
- April 3, 2015
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2015-2926 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- citrix / netscaler
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Citrix NetScaler Platinum Edition Load Balancer v10.5 running on MPX 9700-FIPS, MPX 10500-FIPS, MPX 12500-FIPS and MPX 15500-FIPS appliances - Citrix Systems, Inc. - Common Criteria CRP294 - archived
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130937/Citrix-NITRO-SDK-Command-Injection.html(Exploit)
- 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(Exploit)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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