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DigitalOcean and PHP2Shell

DigitalOcean's PHP2Shell statement is recorded as patched partly, with statement date printed as Updated: October 21, 2026; read the published statement.

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Company
DigitalOcean
Domain
digitalocean.com
Group
Host
Index category
not an Index vendor
Status
patched partly
Statement found
yes
Statement
https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/critical-php-rce-vulnerabilities-patch-now
Statement date
Updated: October 21, 2026
Fixed version named
yes: PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, 8.2.35
Worker restart stated
yes
End of life plan stated
yes
Source type
official page
Places checked
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The statement

Droplets don’t include PHP by default.

Read the statement on www.digitalocean.com, dated Updated: October 21, 2026. Source type: official page.

Notes

Droplets don’t include PHP by default. DigitalOcean describes separate actions by service. The PHP App Platform buildpack has been patched, while customers must redeploy or update their own container images. Customer-installed PHP on Droplets remains the customer's responsibility. Cloudways is the separately managed product.

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What the five engines said

ChatGPT

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Captured . No status named. Cites a digitalocean.com page.

Yes—some DigitalOcean products were affected, and patches have been deployed, but customer-managed PHP workloads are not automatically fixed. DigitalOcean’s official advisory explicitly covers both CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Status as of October 23, 2026: | Product | Patch status / required action | |---|---| | App Platform | PHP buildpack patched. Redeploy applications to receive the fix; custom containers require

Cited: www.digitalocean.com, status.cloudways.com

Claude

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Captured . No status named. Cites a digitalocean.com page.

Yes, DigitalOcean is aware of and affected by PHP2Shell, and has communicated patch availability. Here is a detailed breakdown: PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619): DigitalOcean's Status What is PHP2Shell? PHP2Shell refers to CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, two critical vulnerabilities in PHP that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. Specifically: CVE-2026-109618 – RCE via OOM corruption: out-of-memory handling can interrupt PHP while

Cited: socradar.io, www.helpnetsecurity.com, sansec.io

Perplexity

no status named

Captured . No status named. Cites a digitalocean.com page.

Yes. DigitalOcean is affected wherever customers run PHP, including Droplets, DOKS workloads, App Platform applications, custom containers, and existing Marketplace 1-Click images. DigitalOcean says PHP versions from 5 onward are potentially affected. Patch status: App Platform: The PHP buildpack has been patched, but applications must be redeployed. Apps using a custom Dockerfile or container image require the customer to

Cited: www.digitalocean.com, x.com, php2shellcheck.com

Google AI Overviews

differs

Captured . Status named: patching. Cites a digitalocean.com page.

Yes, DigitalOcean's ecosystem and certain hosted products are affected by the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), and the status of the patches depends on the specific DigitalOcean product being used . DigitalOcean addressed the incident and outlined specific product statuses in its official advisory: Critical PHP RCE Vulnerabilities: Patch Now (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) | DigitalOcean. Product Patch Status on DigitalOcean

Cited: www.digitalocean.com, www.youtube.com

Google AI Mode

no status named

Captured . No status named. Cites a digitalocean.com page.

DigitalOcean itself is not the vulnerable entity, but user droplets, virtual private servers (VPS), and apps running unpatched PHP instances on DigitalOcean infrastructure are directly affected by CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (PHP2Shell). Because DigitalOcean provides cloud infrastructure rather than managing user-level application runtimes, you (the user) are responsible for updating PHP on your own droplets or servers to a patched

Cited: www.digitalocean.com, socradar.io, www.bbc.com

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DigitalOcean's PHP2Shell statement is recorded as patched partly, with statement date printed as Updated: October 21, 2026; source: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/critical-php-rce-vulnerabilities-patch-now.

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