Cloudflare outage: What is a 'latent' bug, responsible for disrupting ChatGPT, X, WhatsApp, Canva and more?

Cloudflare acknowledged the problem on its status page at around 8 a.m. ET, stating that it had identified the root cause and was working to deploy a fix. Within two hours, the company confirmed that the patch had been implemented and services were gradually returning to normal, though monitoring would continue to ensure stability.