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Sitemap . Trust & Security Patching at Fleet Scale, Twice: How DigitalOcean Closed Januscape and the AMD Safe RET Issue Without Customer Impact By Tim Lisko Deputy CISO Updated: August 24, 2026 12 min read <- Back to blog home Setting the stakes In early July, security researcher Hyunwoo Kim discovered Januscape (CVE-2026-53359), a flaw in KVM’s handling of nested virtualization that could allow a malicious guest to escape into the host hypervisor. It was disclosed publicly on July 6 via the Linux oss-security mailing list . For a cloud provider, a guest-to-host escape is the most serious class of vulnerability there is: the hypervisor is the boundary that keeps each customer’s workloads isolated from each other, and from our infrastructure itself. We responded, patched the entire fleet in eight days with zero confirmed customer-facing impact, and drafted a post about how we did it. Then, before we could hit publish, it happened again. 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