CVE-2015-2838

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 None

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2015-2838

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2015-04-03T14:59:01

Last Modified Date
2018-10-09T19:56:30

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-352	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:netscaler:10.5:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

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

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
6.8

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
6.4

References

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

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2838
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2838

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 18:34:20				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 04:09:40	2015-04-03T14:59Z	2015-04-03T14:59:01	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 04:09:40		2018-10-09T19:56:30	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 04:09:40		Modified	Vulnerability Status	updated