By The Hacker News
Publication Date: 2026-03-28 09:11:00
A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway is witnessing active reconnaissance activity, according to Defused Cyber and watchTowr.
The vulnerability, CVE-2026-3055 (CVSS score: 9.3), refers to a case of insufficient input validation leading to memory overread, which an attacker could exploit to leak potentially sensitive information.
Per Citrix, successful exploitation of the flaw hinges on the appliance being configured as a SAML Identity Provider (SAML IDP).
“We are now observing auth method fingerprinting activity against NetScaler ADC/Gateway in the wild,” Defused Cyber said in a post on X. “Attackers are probing /cgi/GetAuthMethods to enumerate enabled authentication flows in our Citrix honeypots.”
This is likely an attempt on the part of threat actors to determine if NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway are indeed configured as a SAML IDP.
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