Dear iPath Users,

Over the past 24 hours, the iPath network was temporarily taken offline to perform urgent, mandatory infrastructure and security upgrades.

Why Was Maintenance Necessary?

Earlier this week, cybersecurity agencies and the PHP Foundation disclosed critical, wide-reaching zero-day vulnerabilities in the PHP runtime engine—specifically CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (collectively dubbed "PHP2Shell"). These vulnerabilities allow unauthenticated remote execution at the server level, posing an immediate risk to systems running legacy PHP environments.

To safeguard our database, user records, and telepathology case data, our team executed an emergency migration to transition the iPath platform to a modernized, fully secured server environment running PHP 8.5.

Current Status

Web Portal: Online and fully functional. You can sign in, review cases, browse medical imaging, and create entries directly through the web interface as normal.

Email Ingestion & Notifications (Temporary Limitation):
The automatic email processing service (importing case files received via email and sending automated email notifications) is temporarily disabled while we finish adapting the mail services to the new server architecture. Mail read and write capabilities will be restored over the next few days.

In the interim, please perform all case submissions and review communications directly through the website portal.

We sincerely apologize for the short notice, the downtime, and any disruption this caused to your clinical and diagnostic workflows. Protecting the integrity and confidentiality of your data is our highest priority.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Kurt Brauchli

There has been some unplanned maintainance of the database and the iPath Server, which has caused some problems during the last few days. The server should now be running as expected again.

Dear User, As already announced on the homepage on February 27th 2023, the iPath platform (hereinafter: iPath) can no longer be hosted by the previous provider (BASYS DATA). To ensure the continued existence of iPath, the iPath Telemedicine Network was founded on May, 29th 2017 as a non-profit, liable company (iPath Telemedicine Network gGmbH; https://www.ipathnetwork.org; hereinafter: iPath-gGmbH). For the above reason of discontinued hosting by BASYS DATA, iPath had to be migrated to a new provider (PAICON; https://paicon.com/). All groups were informed by iPath gGmbH by e-mail about this change of provider and agreed to the transfer of their data. The transfer will be accompanied by an update by PAICON, free of charge for iPath, which corresponds to a complete reprogramming of the platform and will provide it with numerous new functionalities (iPath 4.0). Unfortunately, the old iPath version is no longer compatible with the new version. For this reason, the existing data cannot be transferred to the new system (iPath 4.0). After the migration, PAICON will try keeping the old data accessible on the PAICON server in their previous form to ensure working as usual. However, this cannot be guaranteed. Another consequence of the update is that all groups and users willing to use iPath3.0 must re-register on the PAICON server. The old usernames and passwords cannot be transferred for data protection reasons. The new access codes must comply with the PAICON specifications. Instructions will be published on the homepage ((https://www.ipathnetwork.org;) as soon as the transfer has been completed. The moderators of all groups will then be informed by e-mail.

To find out more information about the further development of iPath, contact the following email addresses. Best regards Monika Hubler adam@pathologie-ingolstadt.de peter.fritz23@arcor.de

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