ACME flaw in Cloudflare allowed attackers to reach origin servers

Cloudflare fixed a flaw in its ACME validation logic that could let attackers bypass security checks and access protected origin servers. Cloudflare fixed a flaw in its ACME HTTP-01 validation logic that could let attackers bypass security checks and reach origin servers. The issue stemmed from how Cloudflare’s edge handled requests to the /.well-known/acme-challenge/ path. […]

January 21, 2026
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What AWS and Cloudflare Outages Teach Us About Cloud Configuration Risks

On Tuesday, 18 November, a Cloudflare outage took a significant part of the Internet offline, including major sites, enterprise platforms and public-facing services. Ironically, even Downdetector – the platform that provides real-time information about service outages – apparently went down for a time. This wasn’t an isolated incident, either: an AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage about a month ago caused similar disruption to thousands of dependent services and was followed a few days later by a smaller Microsoft Azure outage. If the largest Cloud providers can experience outages of this size, it’s no great stretch to suggest that all organisations

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November 20, 2025
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The Cloudflare Outage May Be a Security Roadmap

An intermittent outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday briefly knocked many of the Internet’s top destinations offline. Some affected Cloudflare customers were able to pivot away from the platform temporarily so that visitors could still access their websites. But security experts say doing so may have also triggered an impromptu network penetration test for organizations that have come to rely on Cloudflare to block many types of abusive and malicious traffic.

November 19, 2025
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