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Body parsing change for a React Server Components fix causes 25-minute outage

MajorConfig changeUpdated 16h ago
Dec 5, 08:47 UTCDec 5, 09:12 UTC
Duration
25m
Impact
Major
Root cause
Config change
Cloudflare, 90 days
50 incidents
Affected
CDNWAFGlobal

Lesson: Urgent security mitigations still need a staged rollout; speed of response is exactly when a global config push is most dangerous.

What happened

Configuration changes to body parsing logic, made to detect and mitigate an industry-wide React Server Components vulnerability, caused a portion of the network to fail for about 25 minutes. Not an attack.

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