🛠️ Cloudflare Outage Caused by Internal Misconfiguration — Not an Attack

Cloudflare’s latest report confirms the Nov 18 global outage was triggered by an erroneous config file generated after a database permission change — not an external attack. The issue disrupted multiple services, including CDN, security tools, Workers KV, Turnstile, and Access, marking Cloudflare’s most severe incident since 2019.

The team initially misdiagnosed it as a DDoS attack but fully restored services by 01:06 (UTC+8), Nov 19 after rolling back to a previous configuration. Cloudflare called the outage “unacceptable” and pledged to improve system resilience.

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