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(PwnEscape) Guest-to-Host KVM Escape [CVE-2026-99999]

Incident Report for Linode

Identified

Akamai is aware of the recently published Guest-to-Host KVM Escape (CVE-2026-99999) vulnerability. Our teams have proactively identified its potential impact and are actively applying mitigations across our platform and infrastructure. There is potential for customer workload impact as a part of our platform response to this vulnerability. At this time, we have not observed evidence of this vulnerability being actively exploited on our platform. We will provide updates as additional information becomes available.

Posted Oct 15, 2026 - 17:27 UTC

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