Scheduled security maintenance — temporary unavailability of some services

The maintenance is now complete. Thanks for your patience.

Our technical teams have made significant progress in addressing the vulnerabilities across our infrastructure. Several affected systems, including member-facing services, have already been patched or secured through additional protective measures. The remaining systems are being addressed according to their exposure and criticality. For older applications that cannot be patched directly, we are implementing access restrictions and preparing their migration, replacement or decommissioning as appropriate.

These activities remain a priority for our teams, with the objective of fully mitigating the vulnerabilities while minimising disruption to members and the community. Some services may remain temporarily unavailable or accessible only through restricted channels until the necessary security measures have been completed. We will continue to provide updates through our status page as work progresses.

We thank you for your patience and understanding.

The scheduled maintenance is now underway. We'll keep you updated on our progress.

A critical security vulnerability was recently disclosed in a widely used software component (PHP) that underpins several of our web services. As a precautionary measure, we are applying the vendor-supplied security update across our affected systems.

To carry this out safely, some services will be temporarily taken offline during the maintenance window listed above. Affected services may be intermittently unavailable while patching and verification are in progress.

This is a planned, precautionary action to keep our platforms secure. We will post updates here as the work progresses and confirm once all services are fully restored.

We apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

For urgent queries, please contact noc [at] afrinic.net