# CVE-2015-2838: Cross-site request forgery in n/a

> Remote attackers can hijack administrator sessions to execute arbitrary commands as root via CSRF in Citrix NetScaler.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 3 Apr 2015
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-49gh-f88v-9xqf

## What is CVE-2015-2838?

CVE-2015-2838 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Apr 2015. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2838?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Citrix Netscaler.

## How do I fix CVE-2015-2838?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-2838 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2015-2838 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2838 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code:

- Citrix Nitro SDK - Command Injection (exploitdb)

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2016-2071](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-2071/): Privilege escalation in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2018-6186](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-6186/): Server-side request forgery in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2016-2072](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-2072/): Other in n/a (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2015-2841](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-2841/): Security feature bypass in n/a (medium 5.0)
- [CVE-2007-6193](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-6193/): Information disclosure in n/a (medium 5.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2015-2838 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2015-2838 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Apr 2015. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2838 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-2838/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-2838/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2838
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2838
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-2838

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