CVE-2015-2838

Published Apr 3, 2015

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.8
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-352

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:citrix:netscaler:10.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "375EE327-CD32-4735-B896-08A50C1931D2"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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