CSRF in Citrix Netscaler
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.
Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.029 (86.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 86.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.029 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Citrix Netscaler — versions 10.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36442/ (exploit)
- www.securify.nl/advisory/SFY20140806/command_injection_vulnerability_in_citrix_… (Exploit)
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/130937/Citrix-NITRO-SDK-Command-Injection.html (Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534936/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/73358 (vdb-entry)
- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/129 (mailing-list)