CVE-2026-14440— Cloudflare Universal SSL automatically managed CAA RRset supersedes customer-configured CAA records

Cloudflare Universal SSL automatically managed CAA RRset supersedes customer-configured CAA records

Description: To issue and renew TLS certificates on behalf of customers, Cloudflare's Universal SSL feature automatically manages the CAA RRset for the customer's zone. This auto-managed RRset is permissive by design (e.g. 'issue "letsencrypt.org"' without parameters). On Universal SSL zones, Cloudflare's authoritative DNS serves this auto-managed RRset at query time, superseding any customer-configured CAA records on the zone. When a customer publishes a stricter CAA record using the RFC 8657 accounturi or validationmethods parameters, the Certificate Authority does not observe those parameters when evaluating the served RRset under RFC 8659. As a result, the RFC 8657 account-binding and validation-method-binding protections are not enforced end-to-end on Universal SSL zones. Successful exploitation could result in issuance of a browser-trusted TLS certificate to an attacker, enabling MITM against the affected domain. Exploitation is non-trivial in practice: an attacker would need to hold an ACME account at one of the Certificate Authorities in the served CAA RRset and to simultaneously satisfy domain control validation across the multiple geographically distinct Network Perspectives the CA relies on for Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration. Cloudflare prefixes are anycast-announced from hundreds of locations globally, raising the bar against single-vantage-point BGP hijacks. Any resulting misissuance of a browser-trusted certificate is subject to Certificate Transparency logging required by major browsers, and would be visible to CT monitoring. Mitigation:  Customers requiring strict RFC 8657 enforcement need to disable Universal SSL on the affected zone. Universal SSL's automatic CAA management and customer-set RFC 8657 accounturi and validationmethods enforcement are mutually exclusive by the nature of the issue, so there is no in-product workaround that preserves both.  Certificate Transparency monitoring is recommended for all customers as a general detection control. Credits: David Osipov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2713-9242), independent researcher

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Cloudflare Universal SSL 安全漏洞

Cloudflare Universal SSL是美国Cloudflare公司的一项为所有接入 Cloudflare 的域名自动提供并管理免费 SSL/TLS 证书的服务，旨在让任何网站都能轻松启用加密。 Cloudflare Universal SSL存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于自动管理的CAA RRset在设计上过于宽松，在查询时覆盖用户配置的CAA记录，导致RFC 8657 accounturi和validationmethods参数的保护无法端到端执行，可能导致攻击者获取浏览器信任的TLS证书，从而对

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