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Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare experienced a major global outage on Friday, temporarily taking down hundreds of popular websites including Canva, Zoom, Claude and several SaaS platforms. Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht confirmed the disruption and clarified that it was not a cyberattack. The company deployed corrective measures and services began returning online shortly afterward.
Root Cause Traced To Disabled Logging, Not A Security Attack
Knecht explained via X that the outage stemmed from disabling certain logging features meant to mitigate the recently disclosed React CVE vulnerability, triggering unexpected availability issues. “It was not an attack; root cause was disabling some logging to help mitigate this week’s React CVE,” he posted. He also mentioned that Cloudflare continues to track the React RSC vulnerability and has rolled out “additional mitigations” to protect more customers. According to the status page, Cloudflare has restored services and is closely monitoring stability across the network.
Second Outage Within A Month Raises Reliability Concerns
Friday’s disruption marks the second Cloudflare outage in just over two weeks. On November 18, a latent bug linked to the company’s bot-mitigation technology caused widespread downtime after a routine configuration change. At the time, Knecht acknowledged that the “extent of the issue and the time required for resolution were unacceptable.” Meanwhile, users impacted by the latest outage were advised it is now safe to re-enable Cloudflare services that were temporarily disabled.
