CVE-2015-2838

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-2838
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-04-03 14:59:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-09 19:56:00 UTC
DescriptionCross-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-352

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Citrix Netscaler 10.5 All All All
Application Citrix Netscaler 10.5 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Citrix NITRO SDK - Command Injection Vulnerability EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com
Full Disclosure: Command injection vulnerability in Citrix NITRO SDK xen_hotfix page FULLDISC seclists.org
Securify MISC www.securify.nl Exploit
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Citrix NITRO SDK Command Injection ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit
Citrix NetScaler 'xen_hotfix' Page Command Injection Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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