Pokemon and Umamusume go offline over critical PHP vulnerabilities
Pokemon Sleep, Pokemon HOME, Pokemon Champions and several Cygames titles including Umamusume, Granblue Fantasy and Shadowverse went into emergency maintenance on October 21 over two critical PHP flaws rated 9.2 that allow unauthenticated remote code execution. PHP released patches for versions 8.2 through 8.5; Nintendo has not confirmed its Switch Online maintenance is related.
- The flaws CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 are rated 9.2 out of 10
- PHP shipped fixes for versions 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5
- Cygames said a PHP vulnerability was found on Umamusume servers
- Nintendo has not confirmed a link to Switch Online outages
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