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Cloudflare restores service after outage that brought down Zoom, LinkedIn
Cloudflare's firewall update caused a global outage affecting 20% of websites; service was restored within an hour after a fix was deployed during scheduled maintenance.
- On Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, Cloudflare admitted a problem at 0856 UTC that made many popular sites unreachable and restored services by 0930 UTC.
- During scheduled maintenance in its Chicago and Detroit datacenters, Cloudflare said a firewall parsing change and disabled logging during React CVE mitigation caused the outage, not an attack.
- Cloudflare warned of increased errors affecting Workers scripts, while users encountered widespread `500 Internal Server Error` messages and Downdetector reports peaked at nearly 4,000 around 9.03am.
- Repeated incidents in recent weeks have knocked major services offline worldwide, prompting customers to reassess dependencies as experts warn of a single-point-of-failure risk, Jake Moore said.
- Cloudflare said in a status message, `Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs`, and will share a blog post and ongoing updates.
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