Cloudflare incident
Duplicated values in X-Forwarded-For header
Cloudflare experienced a critical incident on April 28, 2026 affecting CDN/Cache and CDN Cache Purge, lasting 14h 59m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
CDN/CacheCDN Cache Purge
Update timeline
- investigating Apr 28, 2026, 06:31 PM UTC
Cloudflare is investigating duplicated values in the X-Forwarded-For header. Origins depending on this header may exhibit unexpected behavior.
- investigating Apr 28, 2026, 06:34 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- identified Apr 28, 2026, 07:00 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- identified Apr 28, 2026, 07:00 PM UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- identified Apr 28, 2026, 08:39 PM UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- identified Apr 29, 2026, 06:12 AM UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. A new expected roll out is ~2.5 hours - ETA ~08:30 UTC.
- resolved Apr 29, 2026, 09:30 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.