Cloudflare Universal SSL CAA record override

RISK EVALUATION Cloudflare 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...

EUVD-2026-41207

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,...

CVE-2026-14440

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,...

CVE-2026-14440 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,...

CVE-2026-14440 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,...

CVE-2026-14440

Summary: CVE-2026-14440 concerns Cloudflare’s Universal SSL: automatic, permissive CAA RRset management on Universal SSL zones supersedes customer CAA records. When customers push stricter CAA via RFC 8657 accounturi or validationmethods, CAs do not observe those parameters during RFC 8659 evalua...

CVE-2026-14440

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,...

CVE-2026-14440: Protection Mechanism Failure

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,...

PT-2026-54701

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cloudflare affected versions not specified Description Cloudflare's Universal SSL feature automatically manages the Certification Authority Authorization CAA Resource Record Set RRset for customer zones. This auto-managed RRset is permissive a...

CloudFlare Rolls Out Free SSL

In a move that will essentially double the number of SSL-protected sites on the Web in the space of 24 hours, CloudFlare on Monday said that it was enabling SSL for all of its more than two million customers for free. The new service is called Universal SSL, and the company is making it available...