October, 2025
Incident Updates
Updates
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A Linux exploit has been discovered that poses a direct risk to virtualized environments worldwide. To safeguard your workloads and data, we must act immediately.
Our security team is applying critical security patches across our infrastructure. No action is required on your part. To complete this process, your virtual machines will be rebooted during the following maintenance window:
• Start Time: 2025-10-07 20:00:00 UTC • End Time: 2025-10-07 21:00:00 UTC • Impact: A short interruption (~2-3 minutes) while VMs restart • Action Required: None - the reboots will be carried out automatically
Applying this patch without delay is the only way to ensure your environment remains secure. We recognize the disruption any downtime can cause, but protecting your systems from compromise is our priority.
No changes will be made to your VPS or configurations you have made to your VPS. No action is required on your part.
You can check status and updates at https://status.vultr.com
We appreciate your immediate attention to this notice and thank you for trusting us to protect your infrastructure.