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Outage in Liquid Web

Magento 2 “PolyShell” File Upload Vulnerability efforts

Resolved Minor
March 31, 2026 - Started about 10 hours ago - Lasted about 2 hours
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Summary AI Generated

A malformed patch update deployed during Magento 2 "PolyShell" vulnerability mitigation efforts caused Apache to fail to start properly for a subset of Liquid Web customers. This resulted in complete website failures for all affected customers' sites. The incident was resolved after 2.2 hours.

During our continuing efforts to proactively mitigate the recent Magento 2 “PolyShell” File Upload Vulnerability a sub-set of customers received a malformed patch update which caused Apache to not start up properly. For those affected, all websites are failing to load. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working diligently to correct the issue. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact a member of our support team via live-chat, or case (support@liquidweb.com).

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RESOLVED about 8 hours ago - at 03/31/2026 09:05PM

This incident has been resolved.

IDENTIFIED about 10 hours ago - at 03/31/2026 06:55PM

During our continuing efforts to proactively mitigate the recent Magento 2 “PolyShell” File Upload Vulnerability a sub-set of customers received a malformed patch update which caused Apache to not start up properly. For those affected, all websites are failing to load. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working diligently to correct the issue.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact a member of our support team via live-chat, or case (support@liquidweb.com).

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