Citrix advises administrators to manually address PuTTY SSH client bug

Citrix advises administrators to manually address PuTTY SSH client bug

Citrix recently informed its customers about a vulnerability in the PuTTY SSH client that could potentially allow attackers to steal a XenCenter administrator’s private SSH key. XenCenter is a tool used to manage Citrix Hypervisor environments from a Windows desktop and is responsible for tasks like monitoring and deploying virtual machines. This security flaw, identified … Read more

Citrix Issues Security Patch for Critical PuTTY Vulnerability in Hypervisor

Citrix has recently identified a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-31497) in certain versions of its Citrix Hypervisor virtualization platform. This vulnerability is associated with the use of a vulnerable version of the PuTTY SSH client in XenCenter, the management console for Citrix Hypervisor. The affected versions of XenCenter, specifically those prior to 8.2.6 in the Citrix Hypervisor … Read more

Citrix advises administrators to take manual action to address PuTTY SSH client vulnerability

Citrix recently informed its customers about a vulnerability in the PuTTY SSH client that could potentially allow attackers to access a XenCenter administrator’s private SSH key. XenCenter is a tool used to manage Citrix Hypervisor environments from a Windows desktop, facilitating tasks such as deploying and monitoring virtual machines. The security flaw, known as CVE-2024-31497, … Read more

Citrix advises administrators to manually address PuTTY SSH client bug

Citrix recently informed its customers about a security vulnerability in the PuTTY SSH client that could potentially allow attackers to steal a XenCenter administrator’s private SSH key. XenCenter is a tool used to manage Citrix Hypervisor environments from a Windows desktop, allowing users to deploy and monitor virtual machines. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-31497, affects … Read more

Citrix advises users to manually update PuTTY version on XenCenter system

Citrix has issued a warning to its customers regarding a security flaw in the PuTTY SSH client that could potentially enable attackers to steal a XenCenter administrator’s private SSH key. The flaw, identified as CVE-2024-31497, impacts various versions of XenCenter for Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 CU1 LTSR which utilized PuTTY for SSH connections to guest virtual … Read more