CVE-2026-14440

Description

Cloudflare Universal SSL automatically manages the CAA RRset for customer zones in order to issue and renew TLS certificates. In affected Universal SSL configurations, Cloudflare authoritative DNS can serve an auto-managed CAA RRset at query time that supersedes customer-configured CAA records. As a result, Certificate Authorities may not observe customer-configured RFC 8657 accounturi or validationmethods parameters when evaluating CAA under RFC 8659. Customers may therefore believe strict certificate-issuance controls are enforced, while those controls are not preserved end-to-end for Universal SSL zones. Successful exploitation is non-trivial and requires a strong network position plus successful domain validation, but misissuance could result in a browser-trusted TLS certificate and enable MITM against the affected domain.