Key Info

Japan's Prime Minister publicly urged website operators to prepare for and rapidly apply a PHP security patch addressing two critical vulnerabilities, scheduled for release at 11 PM JST on October 21.

Highlights

  • The PHP security team issued an advisory covering two critical vulnerabilities affecting widely used websites.
  • Operators were asked to check whether their public sites run PHP and to be ready to patch immediately at release time.
  • If patching quickly is not feasible, temporarily taking websites offline was cited as an effective way to reduce risk.
  • The national cybersecurity office is also publishing related information through its X account.