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CLOUDFLARE FIREWALL REACTS BADLY TO REACT EXPLOIT MITIGATION

networkworld.com3 min read

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Cloudflare briefly knocked many customer sites and services offline after a flawed Web Application Firewall update meant to block a new remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components. The misconfiguration took Cloudflare's network down for several minutes, disrupting platforms from e-commerce to cloud services and echoing earlier large outages at Cloudflare and AWS.