Financial Information Services

<div>Between 5pm and 6pm on Thursday, August 13, 2026, the new Zoom User Interface (UI) experience will be enabled for the Cornell Zoom web portal (https://cornell.zoom.us). This UI update changes the web portal experience to be closer to the UI of the Zoom desktop app.&nbsp;<br><br>The vendor is implementing this change for all users on August 26th, 2026. We are triggering the change ahead of schedule in order to prevent the forced vendor change taking place in the middle of the first week of classes.</div>

<div>REMINDER: The Cornell University WiFi system will be unavailable for 10-15 minutes on Wednesday August 12 at 5am ET to apply routine firmware patching.

<div>The public web interfaces to Lyris List Manager will permanently shut down.

<div>The SCCM Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) is currently offline. Cornell IT staff are investigating. Imaging/Operating System Deployment (OSD) and patching are not affected. Any managed windows clients can connect to the Cornell VPN for software or settings.</div>

<div>CVE-2026-63030 + CVE-2026-60137 · Pre-auth WordPress Core RCE chain used as initial access to deploy Agent-TCP, a cross-platform Go RAT, across Windows &amp; Linux — combined with mass IoT compromise across 14 CPU architectures, fileless execution via MemfdCreate, and DLL injection on Windows.<br><br>Affected: WordPress 6.9.0–7.0.1. Fixed: 7.0.2 / 6.9.5.

<div>On August 5th, from 4am to 7am, we are upgrading routers and switches at the Rhodes and CCC Serverfarms, as well as routers at the Rhodes and CCC Nodes. <br><br>Wired connectivity will be impacted in the Serverfarm locations intermittently during the upgrades.<br><br><strong>The devices sfc1-qfx and sfr1-qfx are out of scope for this upgrade. </strong><br><br>Wired and wireless network connectivity will be impacted in the Rhodes/CCC nodes intermittently during the upgrades.

<div>In August, Zoom will be making a significant UI update to the Zoom <strong>web</strong> portal. This will be a mandatory change with no option to revert to the old UI.&nbsp;<br><br>On July 23, a preview option will allow meeting participants and organizers to familiarize themselves with the new UI. Once enabled, a "Try New Experience" toggle will appear in the upper right of the Cornell Zoom web portal.

<div>On Saturday, July 25, between 7 and 8 am EDT, Endpoint Infrastructure &amp; Engineering will reconfigure downloads.cornell.edu to utilize Identity Management's new ACME Proxy service for managing its security certificate.&nbsp;<br><br>No downtime is expected, but there may be a momentary interruption as the certificate is updated.</div>

<div>Kuali Financial System (KFS) and eShop will be down for a patch release this Sunday, July 26, from 6am to 12noon EST.</div>

<div>Guest users of SharePoint receive an error when trying to access shared documents stored in Cornell Ithaca's SharePoint. This may include external users such as WCM, or any other external user. <br>&nbsp;<br>Guest file access in Microsoft Teams, which uses SharePoint for file storage, is also affected. Chat continues to work for affected users. The file access issue is only impacting external users who were added as a guest directly to a non-shared team.