Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-2838

Title: Citrix Netscaler RCE

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2015-2838

CWE Category CWE-352

Published Date Apr 03, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.86%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

citrix 1

Reference Links

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-2838 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36442

View Code

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 03, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.