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Cloudflare Containers exposed residual disk blocks across tenants

blog.cloudflare.com 7 min read Editor score 8/10

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Researchers showed that a customer could recover residual disk blocks previously used by Containers on the same host, though they could not target a specific customer or workload. The fleet-wide fix and constrained exposure make this a useful case in multi-tenant isolation.

What
- A Cloudflare Containers vulnerability let a Workers Paid customer recover residual disk blocks from containers previously run on the same host.
How
- With dm-thin block zeroing disabled, a 4 KiB write to a reassigned 64 KiB block could leave the remaining bytes readable.
Why it matters
- The issue highlights the risk of reusing storage across tenants without clearing it; Cloudflare says it fixed the fleet and found no evidence of customer compromise.
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Container disk writes flowed through Firecracker and dm-thin to a pool shared across customer workloads. Sketched from the article's own text.

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