Beyond the patch: Protecting your NetScaler gateway against future vulnerabilities

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  "url": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/protect-your-netscaler-gateway/",
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    "title": "Beyond the patch: Protecting your NetScaler gateway against future vulnerabilities",
    "summary": "The article discusses Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities and recommends defense in depth using Cloudflare Access, WAF inspection, and origin restrictions. It mentions software updates but gives no fixed versions.",
    "evidence": "Citrix released software updates to address the flaw, and Cloudflare followed with an emergency web application firewall (WAF) rule on October 1.",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "Citrix NetScaler",
          "evidence": "The recent disclosure of a major vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler"
        },
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        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": []
      }
    ],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "fixed_cves": [],
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2026-88771",
        "evidence": "Citrix's September 27, 2026 bulletin reported observed exploitation of CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772."
      },
      {
        "value": "CVE-2026-88772",
        "evidence": "Citrix's September 27, 2026 bulletin reported observed exploitation of CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772."
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
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  "source_id": "official-cloudflare-blog",
  "document_id": 23425,
  "published_at": "2026-10-19T13:00:00+00:00"
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