Cloudflare has officially released a detailed post-event report on the global network outage on November 18, 2025. The report states that the outage, which began at 11:20 UTC, was not caused by a cyber attack, but was caused by a chain reaction caused by a change in the permissions of the database system. The specific reason is that the characteristic profile of the Bot management system was abnormally large due to changes in the query behavior of the ClickHouse database, which exceeded the pres...