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    GCVE-1988-2026-0029

    Vulnerability from gna-1988 – Published: 2026-09-07 13:20 – Updated: 2026-09-09 10:11
    VLAI
    Title
    [NotCVE-2026-0001] Cloudflare Universal SSL CAA augmentation weakens RFC 8657 account binding — CVE-2026-14440 assigned 163 days after public no-CVE disclosure
    Summary
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NotCVE Disclosure Update — NotCVE-2026-0001 / CVE-2026-14440 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Summary: On 2026-01-19 the issue described below was published as NotCVE-2026-0001 after no CVE identifier was assigned for it. On 2026-07-01 — 163 days later — Cloudflare assigned CVE-2026-14440 to the same issue, now rated CVSS 9.1. This message documents the disclosure timeline for the public record. [-] Affected: Cloudflare Universal SSL (managed CAA record augmentation) — service-side behaviour; no customer-side patch applicable. [-] Technical Description: Cloudflare Universal SSL automatically adds CAA issue/issuewild records when a customer has Universal SSL enabled and publishes any CAA records for the zone. These auto-added records are not shown in the Cloudflare dashboard but are returned in DNS responses, and can include permissive authorizations such as: CAA 0 issue "letsencrypt.org" CAA 0 issuewild "letsencrypt.org" When a domain owner uses RFC 8657 CAA extensions (accounturi and/or validationmethods) to restrict certificate issuance to a specific authorized ACME account or validation method, the presence of an auto-added CAA issue property WITHOUT those RFC 8657 constraints broadens authorization: per RFC 8657, a CAA property without an accounturi parameter matches any account. This weakens the domain owner's intended account binding and may enable unauthorized DV certificate issuance. [-] Disclosure Timeline: [19/01/2026] - Public record published as NotCVE-2026-0001; no CVE identifier assigned at that time [01/07/2026] - Cloudflare assigns CVE-2026-14440 (CVSS 9.1) for the same issue, 163 days after the public record [-] CVE Reference: CVE-2026-14440 [-] References: https://notcve.org/notcve/NotCVE-2026-0001 (full technical record, preserved since day one) https://notcve.org/cve/CVE-2026-14440 [-] About NotCVE: NotCVE (https://notcve.org) assigns public, timestamped NotCVE IDs to vulnerabilities not acknowledged by vendors. Vendor will not assign a CVE? Request a NotCVE: https://notcve.org/form/ · Contributors: https://notcve.org/hall/ _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
    Severity
    No CVSS data available.
    Impacted products

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