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Citrix Security BulletinsCTX697038

XenServer Security Update for Multiple Issues

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.

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Scope

What the vendor says is affected

  • XenServer
  • 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.
Next step

What the vendor recommends

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. Acknowledgement & Credits CVE-2026-79605 and CVE-2026-79606: Cloud Software Group (Citrix) thanks Jihwan Yoon of NAVER Cloud for working with us to keep our customers secure.

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