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Linode (Akamai): Customer Security Advisory: CVE-2026-98432
Timeline of updates
- investigating
Akamai is aware of the recently published remote code execution CVE-2026-98432. We are actively investigating and taking the appropriate mitigation actions, while we continue to monitor our platform in parallel. If you have questions or are experiencing an impact due to this issue, please reach out to us in a ticket at https://cloud.linode.com/support (opens in new tab).
- investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue. The appropriate subject matter experts are engaged. Subsequent updates around mitigation status will be posted as progress is made.
- investigating
We are in the process of deploying mitigations for the underlying known attack vector while we continue to analyze any other possible impact. Customers are strongly advised to apply OS updates from their upstream provider to their workloads as soon as those become available. At this time, we have no evidence of this vulnerability being exploited on the Akamai Compute platform.
Changes Rewindex caught on this incident
- Incident updated: Customer Security Advisory: CVE-2026-98432
- Incident updated: Customer Security Advisory: CVE-2026-98432
Archive proof
Rewindex commits each version of an incident it captures to a daily checkpoint, chains it to the day before, and has the checkpoint timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert. That proves these records existed by then and have not been changed since, by anyone, Rewindex included.
How the archive is checked, and what it cannot prove.
First version captured
In the 2026-10-30 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on . Record hash
1ad189599b938491…Version 2 captured
In the 2026-10-30 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on . Record hash
7bc2f048f31758e8…
Rewindex captured a newer version after the last checkpoint; the next run () commits it.
Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on status.linode.com (opens in new tab).
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