Outage in Cloudflare

WAF Challenge requests incorrectly forwarded to origin

Resolved Minor

March 03, 2026 - Started about 2 hours ago - Lasted about 1 hour
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

Cloudflare experienced an issue where WAF Challenge actions incorrectly forwarded challenge solve requests to origin servers instead of the original challenged requests, affecting customers globally. The incident impacted Cloudflare Sites and Services and Firewall components for 1.5 hours. The issue was under investigation with Cloudflare actively working on a resolution.

Cloudflare is investigating an issue where origins may receive challenge solve requests instead of the original challenged request. This issue affects customers using WAF Challenge actions globally. We are actively working to resolve this issue and will provide updates as more information becomes available.

Components affected

Cloudflare Sites and Services Cloudflare Firewall

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

INVESTIGATING about 2 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 10:15PM

Cloudflare is investigating an issue where origins may receive challenge solve requests instead of the original challenged request. This issue affects customers using WAF Challenge actions globally.

We are actively working to resolve this issue and will provide updates as more information becomes available.

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