>>Pharao+Zb
Then even in the worst case scenario, they were addressing this issue two days after it was publicly disclosed. So this wasn't a "rush to fix the zero day ASAP" scenario, which makes it harder to justify ignoring errors that started occuring in a small scale rollout.
>>Alread+(OP)
Cloudflare did have early access, and had mitigation in place from the start. The changes that were being rolled out were in response to ongoing attempts to bypass those.
Disclosure: I work at Cloudflare, but not on the WAF