How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability
2026-05-17T19:24:07Z•33e86323a032f3d91de4988c8ff948c49a63a745dd04b54dfa7ba817b0fb7f9a
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What happened
This collection of Cloudflare security blog posts highlights multiple high-impact security developments and mitigations. Notably, Cloudflare responded to a publicly disclosed “Copy Fail” Linux kernel privilege-escalation (described as critical), detecting and mitigating it across their fleet with zero confirmed customer impact or exploitation. Cloudflare also released/announced: generally available post-quantum hybrid IPsec (interoperable with Cisco and Fortinet), mitigations for an ACME validation vulnerability, fixes for request smuggling in Pingora OSS (Pingora 0.8.0), expanded DDoS threat/
Why it matters
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- cloudflare_security_blog
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- 33e86323a032f3d91de4988c8ff948c49a63a745dd04b54dfa7ba817b0fb7f9a
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- 2026-05-17T19:24:07Z
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- Yes
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