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…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 2.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Citrix Nitro SDK - Command Injection (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36442webapps, linuxpublished 19 Mar 2015Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 36442 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 36442 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://www.securify.nl/advisory/SFY20140806/command_injection_vulnerability_in_citrix_nitro_sdk_xen_hotfix_page.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130937/Citrix-NITRO-SDK-Command-Injection.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20150319 Command injection vulnerability in Citrix NITRO SDK xen_hotfix page (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 73358 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20150319 Command injection vulnerability in Citrix NITRO SDK xen_hotfix page (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-2926 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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