Liquid Web incident
PHP Security Vulnerability Assessment (CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619)
Liquid Web is currently experiencing a major incident affecting Cloud Dedicated and Cloud VPS Hosting and 1 more component, which began 5h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Oct 21, 2026, 01:24 PM UTC
We are aware of recent reports regarding two critical vulnerabilities affecting PHP, identified as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. These vulnerabilities may affect web servers running PHP 5.4 and later and could potentially allow remote code execution. Our Security and Engineering teams are actively reviewing our hosting environments to assess potential impact. As a precautionary measure, we are implementing appropriate mitigations and working to deploy the necessary security updates across affected systems as they become available. We are continuing to closely monitor the situation and will provide further updates as additional information becomes available. If you need assistance or have any concerns, please contact our Support team.
- identified Oct 21, 2026, 03:39 PM UTC
Our Security and Engineering teams are continuing to evaluate the optimal patching strategy for our hosting environments. We are currently analyzing the security releases and testing deployment paths in our staging environments to ensure service stability. At this time, no patches or modifications have been rolled out to production systems. Our infrastructure remains under heightened monitoring, and we will share further details here as soon as our deployment plan and maintenance windows are finalized. If you need assistance or have any concerns, please contact our Support team.
- identified Oct 21, 2026, 05:57 PM UTC
Our Security and Engineering teams are continuing to evaluate the optimal patching strategy for our hosting environments. Customers using cPanel/WHM can patch PHP Versions 8.5, 8.4, 8.3, 8.2, along with the backported versions 8.1, 8.0 and 7.4 by performing a cPanel update and the running a yum update. Our infrastructure remains under heightened monitoring, and we will share further details here as soon as our deployment plan and maintenance windows are finalized. If you need assistance or have any concerns, please contact our Support team.