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Cloudflare: Major incident: ERR_TIMED_OUT and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE being observed by Cloudflare Customers

Major incidentoutage (model (Jev), 100%)Changed Detected www.cloudflarestatus.com (opens in new tab)
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After: ERR_TIMED_OUT and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE being observed by Cloudflare Customers
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After: 2026-10-27 12:28 UTC
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After: Cloudflare has identified a third-party issue affecting customers whose traffic passes through external vendor firewalls after recent firmware upgrades. Customers may observe: ERR_TIMED_OUT on standard HTTPS websites ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE on non-standard HTTPS ports (e.g., 8443) Cloudflare's network and edge are functioning normally — these failures occur at the firewall inspection layer and can only be resolved with actions on the 3rd party software configuration.

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History of this incident

Tuesday, October 27

2 rewrites, 5 incident changes

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Major incident: ERR_TIMED_OUT and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE being observed by Cloudflare Customers on Cloudflare’s status page, changed 2026-10-27 12:28 UTC (change 1 of 7).

Title
Major incident: ERR_TIMED_OUT and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE being observed by Cloudflare Customers
Vendor
Cloudflare
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