# Customer Security Advisory: OpenSSH Password Authentication Bypass Vulnerability \[CVE-2026-123158\]

- Provider: [Akamai Cloud (Linode)](https://down.guide/linode)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Degraded
- lasted 0m
- started 2026-11-05 17:40 UTC
- Linode.com
- id: DWN-dd3637a877
- Official page: https://stspg.io/j20lj2qgtmyl

## Updates from Akamai Cloud (Linode)
### 2026-11-05 17:40 UTC: resolved
Akamai is aware of the password authentication bypass vulnerability affecting certain Linux systems using musl libc that was recently mitigated by an urgent OpenSSH update . Since Alpine Linux is specifically called out as being affected, we wanted to assure customers that Linode’s Alpine images are not affected by this vulnerability. Linodes using password-less provisioning do not have password authentication enabled by default unless customers change this configuration option in sshd\_config after launch, while linodes launched using a password do not have any unlocked user accounts with a password hash set to ‘\*’.
However, we would like to use this opportunity as a reminder for customers to consider disabling password authentication permanently in favor of more secure mechanisms such as SSH keys or SSH CA certificates.

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