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Next-Gen SIEM customers are not affected and do not need to take any action. CrowdStrike mitigated the vulnerability for LogScale SaaS customers by deploying network-layer blocks to all clusters on April 7, 2026. We have proactively reviewed all log data and there is no evidence of exploitation.

LogScale Self-hosted customers should upgrade to a patched version immediately to remediate the vulnerability.

CrowdStrike identified this vulnerability during continuous and ongoing product testing.
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