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Citrix Security BulletinsCTX697038

XenServer Security Update for Multiple Issues

High 6 CVEs Published Sep 8, 2026 at 5:58 AM UTC

Summary

Several issues have been identified that affect XenServer 8.4 and XenServer 9. Collectively, these issues may allow a malicious privileged user in a guest VM to compromise or crash the host.

Products covered

  • XenServer

Remediation

We have pushed updates to both the Early Access and Normal update channels of each of XenServer 8.4 and XenServer 9. We recommend that customers update to the latest version from their chosen channel following the instructions at https://docs.xenserver.com/en-us/xenserver/8/update or https://docs.xenserver.com/en-us/xenserver/9/update We have also published an updated Terraform provider, version 0.3.0.

We recommend that customers using the XenServer Terraform provider upgrade to that version, either by using standard Terraform tooling or by downloading the updated version directly from https://github.com/xenserver/terraform-provider-xenserver/releases.

CVEs in this advisory 6

Update history

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    • Removed affected products: These issues affect both XenServer 8.4 and XenServer 9; versions of the XenServer Terraform provider versions before version 0.3.0 are affected by the Terraform issue..
    • The vendor changed its remediation guidance.

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