
CVE-2026-88779: Why Patched Citrix NetScaler Appliances Still Got Hit
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A hands-on look at why benchmark wins like Cloudflare's Clef-vs-Jev claim deserve scrutiny, paired with Google's anti-memorization technique and a practical checklist of held-out generation, dynamic task synthesis, and contamination probes for evals that can't be gamed.

CVE-2026-88779 is an actively exploited Citrix NetScaler SAML zero-day that let attackers compromise appliances even after administrators applied earlier patches, prompting emergency fixes, CISA KEV action, and post-patch reboots to knock SAML deployments offline.