Linode (Akamai) outage, 22 October 2026
Customer Security Advisory: Critical F5/NGINX Out-of-Band Vulnerabilities
- Started
- Status
- Ongoing: Investigating
- Impact
- Not stated
Is this still happening?
Yes. Linode (Akamai) still lists it as investigating; last update 22 Oct 2026, 20:08 UTC.
Right now: Linode (Akamai) reports degraded performance on some systems. (as of 26 Oct, 03:47 UTC) Live Linode (Akamai) status
Last update from Linode (Akamai)
Akamai is aware of the recently published F5/NGINX vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-15176, CVE-2026-97205, and CVE-2026-93479), and our teams are actively investigating their potential impact across our platform and infrastructure. F5 has released out-of-band security patches addressing three critical severity vulnerabilities in NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus. These vulnerabilities may allow unauthenticated attackers to trigger heap buffer overflows, which could cause a denial of service or potential remote code execution if ASLR is bypassed. If you are running a vulnerable version of NGINX Open Source or NGINX Plus on a Linode instance, we recommend following guidance from F5/NGINX and applyin...
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