Critical Duke hosted websites have been restored and are accessible. Some Duke hosted websites remain unavailable as IT staff continue patching and validating affected systems.
If you have questions about this outage or would like to report additional service impacts, please contact the OIT Service Desk (https://oit.duke.edu/help) or join the conversation on the University IT Outage Communication MS Teams site.
Posted Oct 21, 2026 - 17:28 EDT
Update
Websites running vulnerable software are being shut down for patching and will not be reachable internally or externally. Please use the following link to check future updates: https://dukeuniversity.statuspage.io/
Posted Oct 21, 2026 - 10:09 EDT
Identified
As a precaution in response to recently disclosed security vulnerabilities, many Duke-hosted websites may be temporarily unavailable from outside of the Duke network. We will post updates as they become available.
If you have questions about this outage or would like to report additional service impacts, please contact the OIT Service Desk (https://oit.duke.edu/help) or join the conversation on the 'University IT Outage Communication' MS Teams site.