Citrix has warned customers to immediately secure their systems against two vulnerabilities affecting NetScaler Gateway secure remote access solutions and NetScaler ADC networking appliances.
The most severe of the two, tracked as CVE-2026-19490, can allow remote attackers without privileges to bypass authentication when the appliance is configured as an AAA virtual server or as a Gateway (SSL VPN, ICA Proxy, CVPN, RDP Proxy), depending on the NetScaler firmware version and whether SAML Action is configured.
Admins can check if an appliance is vulnerable to attacks targeting CVE-2026-19490 by inspecting their NetScaler configuration for SAML action configuration (add authentication samlAction .*) string and Auth or VPN vserver (‘add authentication vserver .*’ and ‘add vpn vserver .*’) strings.
The second, a high-severity memory overflow security flaw tracked as CVE-2026-19489, can be abused by remote unauthenticated threat actors in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks when SIP ALG (Session Initiation Protocol Application Layer Gateway) is enabled on a large-scale NAT group configuration.
Security teams can determine whether Citrix NetScaler appliances on their network meet the preconditions for CVE-2026-19489 exploitation by inspecting their configuration for the “add lsn group.*sipalg.*” string.
Citrix advised customers to upgrade vulnerable NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances to:
“We strongly recommend that customers review the official NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway security bulletin, assess whether their deployments are affected, and upgrade impacted appliances to the recommended builds as soon as possible,” Citrix warned on Wednesday.
“The bulletin applies to supported versions of customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including certain FIPS and NDcPP builds. SecurAccess ZTNA Hybrid (formerly Secure Private Access Hybrid) deployments that use customer-managed NetScaler instances are also affected and should be upgraded to the recommended builds.”
While these security flaws have not been flagged as exploited in attacks, Citrix urged admins to patch two other NetScaler vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-3055 and CVE-2026-4368) on March 23, just days before attackers began abusing them in the wild.
CISA added the CVE-2026-3055 vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog on March 30 and ordered federal agencies to secure vulnerable Citrix appliances within three days.
Over the last five years, the U.S. cybersecurity agency has flagged 22 Citrix vulnerabilities as exploited in the wild, six of them also abused in ransomware attacks.
The ShadowServer Foundation now tracks over 22,000 NetScaler ADC and nearly 1,800 NetScaler Gateway instances exposed online. However, it does not provide information on the number of honeypots or how many may be vulnerable to attacks targeting CVE-2026-19489 and CVE-2026-19490.
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