Cloudbleed
security bug discovered on February 17, 2017 affecting Cloudflare's reverse proxies, which caused their edge servers to run past the end of a buffer and return memory containing private information (e.g. cookies, authentication tokens)
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Cloudbleed
Summary
Cloudbleed is a vulnerability[1]. Cloudbleed draws 64 Wikipedia views per month (vulnerability category, ranking #10 of 27).[2]
Key Facts
- Cloudbleed is credited with the discovery of Tavis Ormandy[3].
- Cloudbleed's instance of is recorded as vulnerability[4].
- Cloudbleed's instance of is recorded as memory leak[5].
- Cloudbleed's instance of is recorded as named vulnerability[6].
- Cloudflare is named after Cloudbleed[7].
- Heartbleed is named after Cloudbleed[8].
- Cloudbleed's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2017-02-17T00:00:00Z[9].
- Cloudbleed's described at URL is recorded as https://blog.cloudflare.com/quantifying-the-impact-of-cloudbleed/[10].
- Cloudbleed's facet of is recorded as Cloudflare[11].
- Cloudbleed's hashtag is recorded as CloudBleed[12].
- Cloudbleed's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11c6rs_vrj[13].
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Works and Contributions
Cloudbleed is credited with the discovery of Tavis Ormandy[3].
Why It Matters
Cloudbleed draws 64 Wikipedia views per month (vulnerability category, ranking #10 of 27).[2] Cloudbleed has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14]