Changelog

This release introduces new detections for a critical SQL injection vulnerability in Drupal installations utilizing PostgreSQL (CVE-2026-9082), alongside targeted protection for an unsafe deserialization flaw in the Mirasvit Cache Warmer extension (CVE-2026-45247). Additionally, this release includes coverage for a prototype pollution vector in Axios (CVE-2026-40175) and a new generic rule designed to identify and block sophisticated SQL Injection (SQLi) bypass attempts leveraging obfuscated boolean logic.

Key Findings

• CVE-2026-9082: A database abstraction vulnerability affects Drupal sites configured with a PostgreSQL backend. Remote, unauthenticated attackers can exploit this flaw via crafted inputs to inject malicious SQL commands and access or manipulate backend data.

• CVE-2026-45247: A PHP Object Injection vulnerability exists in the Mirasvit Cache Warmer extension for Magento and Adobe Commerce. This flaw stems from unsafe deserialization of untrusted user input, enabling unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on the hosting server.

• CVE-2026-40175: A prototype pollution vulnerability affects the Axios HTTP client library. Attackers can exploit this to inject malicious properties into the global JavaScript object prototype, potentially causing application crashes (Denial of Service) or executing unauthorized code depending on the application structure.

Impact

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code, manipulate database contents, or induce application crashes, leading to severe operational disruption or complete server compromise. These newly deployed signatures intercept these advanced malicious payloads at the edge before they can interact with vulnerable software configurations.

Cloudforce One users can now turn Threat Events indicators into active defense. With this update, users can instantly generate a WAF rule that matches the dynamic list of IP addresses returned by any of their Saved Views.

Threat intelligence is most effective when it is immediately actionable. Previously, blocking threat actors required manually extracting indicators from threat events and copying them into your firewall rules. This new integration bridges the gap between threat discovery and threat mitigation:

• When you identify an active threat pattern - such as an ongoing campaign targeting a specific industry, or using a known indicator type - you can pivot from investigation to mitigation in a single click.
• Instead of writing complex, static IP rules, this functionality allows you to leverage the specific filtering logic you have already defined and saved within your Threat Events ecosystem.
• Automating the generation of the WAF rule expression from your threat views eliminates manual copying errors, ensuring that the right malicious infrastructure is blocked instantly.

You can implement these rules through both the dashboard UI and via the API / Terraform.

Go to Cloudflare Dashboard > Application Security > Threat Intelligence > Manage Views, select your desired view, and select Create WAF Rule.

This will automatically pre-populate the WAF rule builder with the matching threat event IP indicators.

You can also automate this workflow by utilizing the WAF Rule Builder API alongside your Threat Events saved views endpoints.

TL;DR: We’ve launched Threat Actor Profiles directly inside the Threat Events dashboard. You can now immediately pivot from a generic alert or blocked event to a profile that unmasks the "Who, Why, and How" behind a threat event.

Security teams often suffer from a visibility gap. When an attack is blocked, it's difficult to know if it was a random automated bot or a sophisticated advanced persistent threat (APT) campaign specifically targeting your industry. Finding out usually means leaving your security dashboard to hunt through external OSINT feeds or static, out-of-date threat reports. Threat Actor Profiles solve this by sharing Cloudforce One’s deep adversary research directly inside your workflow:

• Cloudflare sees the traffic in real-time across approximately 20% of the web. This means actor profiles display active malicious infrastructure the moment it touches our global edge.
• Every profile provides clear strategic and tactical modules including alternative aliases, origin tracking, historical threat event volume, and MITRE ATT&CK mapping detailing the adversary's technical methods.
• You can search the dedicated threat actor directory or click an actor's name inside any threat event to view all details and related events to the specific threat actor.

Adversary tracking is now available in the Cloudflare Dashbboard and ready to be included in your daily investigation workflow:

• Click on the Threat Actor name in the Threat Events table to open their full identity profile and review their aliases and attack stats.
• Navigate to Cloudflare Dashboard > Application Security > Threat Intelligence to explore the new Threat Actors tab. Here, you can browse a card-based directory of all established entities tracked by Cloudforce One.

Learn more in the Cloudforce One documentation ↗.

Security Insights scans now run more often. Cloudflare scans Free accounts every 7 days, Pro and Business accounts every 3 days, and Enterprise accounts daily.

In addition, all accounts and zones now receive scans by default. You no longer need to enable scans before Cloudflare checks your account for misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and other security risks.

Granular on-demand scans are now available on any plan. You can trigger an on-demand scan for any zone, insight, insight type from the Cloudflare dashboard in order to quickly re-check your security posture after remediating an issue.

To learn more, refer to the Security Insights documentation.

Starting with cloudflared version 2026.5.2 ↗, Cloudflare Tunnel automates the entire connectivity pre-checks workflow directly inside the binary. Previously, customers had to install dig and netcat and run those commands by hand to verify their environment. Now cloudflared does it natively at startup — and surfaces actionable remediation when something is blocked.

On every cloudflared tunnel run (and cloudflared tunnel diag), the binary now natively checks:

• DNS resolution — region1.v2.argotunnel.com and region2.v2.argotunnel.com resolve to valid Cloudflare IPs.
• Transport connectivity — outbound UDP (QUIC) and TCP (HTTP/2) on port 7844.
• Management API — outbound TCP/443 to api.cloudflare.com for software updates.

Results are printed in a scannable CLI table with three states:

• ✅ Pass — the check succeeded.
• ⚠️ Warn — a non-blocking issue, for example the Management API is unreachable so automatic updates will not work, but the tunnel will still come up.
• ❌ Fail — a blocking issue, with a specific remediation hint (for example, Allow outbound UDP on port 7844).

If DNS is unresolvable, or both UDP and TCP fail on port 7844, cloudflared exits early with the failure rather than looping on opaque failed to dial errors.

Pre-checks now run automatically on every start, which also catches regressions like overnight firewall policy changes — no need to remember to rerun the troubleshooting guide.

To get the new behavior, upgrade cloudflared to version 2026.5.2 or later. For more details, refer to the Connectivity pre-checks documentation.

You can now scope Cloudflare permissions to individual Cloudflare Tunnel instances and Cloudflare Mesh nodes. Administrators can delegate access to specific Tunnels or Mesh nodes without granting account-wide control over private networking.

When you add a member or create a permission policy, the resource picker now lists Cloudflare Tunnel instances and Cloudflare Mesh nodes as scopable resource types. You can:

• Grant a read-only role on a single Cloudflare Tunnel instance to a support operator for log streaming and diagnostics — without exposing other Tunnels or destructive actions.
• Grant a write role on a specific Cloudflare Mesh node to an application team — without giving them access to the rest of your private network.
• Scope a single policy to one or many Tunnels and Mesh nodes at once.

Granular permissions are a parallel layer to existing account-level roles — they do not replace them.

• Existing account-level roles continue to work. A member with Cloudflare Access or Cloudflare Zero Trust retains write access to every Tunnel and Mesh node in the account. This ensures backward compatibility for existing automation and tokens.
• Granular permissions are additive. For any API request on a specific Tunnel or Mesh node, access is granted if the principal has either the account-level role or a granular permission for that resource.
• Resource enumeration is authorization-aware. Listing endpoints (GET /accounts/{id}/cfd_tunnel, GET /accounts/{id}/warp_connector) return only the resources the principal has at least read access to.

• Configure granular permissions for Cloudflare Tunnel.
• Configure granular permissions for Cloudflare Tunnel and Cloudflare Mesh in Cloudflare One.
• Review the resource-scoped roles on the Cloudflare role reference.

Key Findings

• Existing rule enhancements have been deployed to improve detection resilience against broad classes of web attacks and strengthen behavioral coverage.

Continuous Rule Improvements

We are continuously refining our managed rules to provide more resilient protection and deeper insights into attack patterns. To ensure an optimal security posture, we recommend consistently monitoring the Security Events dashboard and adjusting rule actions as these enhancements are deployed.

This emergency release introduces two new rules to detect nginx heap buffer overflow and heap spray exploitation attempts targeting the rewrite module's is_args stale-state bug (CVE-2026-42945).

Key Findings

CVE-2026-42945: nginx Heap Buffer Overflow via Stale is_args in Rewrite Module

Successful exploitation allows remote attackers to trigger a heap buffer overflow in nginx's rewrite module by sending crafted URIs containing escapable characters. A length/copy pass mismatch in ngx_http_script_copy_capture_code() causes the copy pass to write escaped data into an undersized buffer, leading to heap corruption. This enables denial of service (worker process crash) and, with heap feng shui techniques, potential remote code execution.

We strongly recommend upgrading to nginx 1.30.1 (or later) immediately to address the underlying vulnerability. If you cannot upgrade immediately, avoid rewrite directives with ? in the replacement string followed by set or if referencing capture groups.

We’ve added a new Agent Readiness tab to URL Scanner reports accessible via the Cloudflare dashboard. This feature evaluates your site against emerging AI standards and provides six specialized scores to help you optimize for the next generation of AI agents and automated discovery.

The Internet is shifting from a human-read web to a machine-read web. AI agents now browse, interact with, and even perform transactions on websites. If a site isn't "agent-ready," these bots may consume excessive bandwidth, fail to find critical information, or be unable to navigate your services efficiently.

This update provides material value by breaking down readiness into six actionable categories:

• Basic Web Presence
• Discoverability
• Content Accessibility
• Bot Access Control
• Protocol Discovery
• Commerce

You can view these scores for any scanned URL directly in the dashboard or via our API.

• Dashboard: Go to Protect & Connect > Application Security > Investigate. After running a scan, select the Agent Readiness tab in the report.
• API: Use the URL Scanner API ↗ to programmatically retrieve these scores for your infrastructure.

To learn more about the methodology behind these scores, refer to the blogpost ↗.

Key Findings

• Existing rule enhancements have been deployed to improve detection resilience against broad classes of web attacks and strengthen behavioral coverage.

Continuous Rule Improvements

We are continuously refining our managed rules to provide more resilient protection and deeper insights into attack patterns. To ensure an optimal security posture, we recommend consistently monitoring the Security Events dashboard and adjusting rule actions as these enhancements are deployed.

Multiple security vulnerabilities were disclosed by the React team and Vercel affecting React Server Components and Next.js. These include denial of service, middleware and proxy bypass, server-side request forgery, cross-site scripting, and cache poisoning issues across a range of severity levels.

We strongly recommend updating your application and its dependencies immediately. Patched versions are available for React (react-server-dom-webpack, react-server-dom-parcel, and react-server-dom-turbopack 19.0.6, 19.1.7, and 19.2.6) and Next.js (15.5.16 and 16.2.5).

Cloudflare WAF rules deployed in response to prior React Server Component CVEs (CVE-2025-55184 ↗ and CVE-2026-23864 ↗) already provide coverage for the newly disclosed denial-of-service vulnerabilities. These rules are enabled by default with a Block action for all customers using the Cloudflare Managed Ruleset, including Free plan customers using the Free Managed Ruleset.

The existing rules detect the underlying attack patterns generically. As a result, they apply to the new CVE-2026-23870 ↗ denial-of-service vulnerability in Server Components and the corresponding Next.js advisory GHSA-8h8q-6873-q5fj ↗.

Cloudflare is investigating whether WAF rules can be safely and effectively deployed for three of the high-severity advisories: CVE-2026-23870 ↗ / GHSA-8h8q-6873-q5fj ↗, GHSA-267c-6grr-h53f ↗, and GHSA-mg66-mrh9-m8jx ↗. If it is possible to create a managed WAF rule that mitigates these CVEs and does not potentially break application behavior, Cloudflare will add additional managed WAF rules. These rules will be announced through the WAF changelog. Because these vulnerabilities were shared with Cloudflare with minimal advance notice, we are still investigating what WAF mitigations are possible.

Several of the disclosed vulnerabilities are not possible to block in WAF. We strongly recommend updating your applications so they are not purely reliant on WAF mitigations.

Customers on Pro, Business, or Enterprise plans should ensure that Managed Rules are enabled.

Vinext: Vinext ↗ is a Vite plugin that reimplements the Next.js API surface. Vinext's latest release is not vulnerable to any of the disclosed CVEs. Vinext's architecture differs from stock Next.js in ways that sidestep the affected code paths. For example, it does not implement the PPR resume protocol, does not expose Pages Router data-route endpoints, and strips internal headers such as x-nextjs-data at request boundaries. As an extra layer of defense, we added a React 19.2.6 or later requirement when running vinext init (PR #1118 ↗, PR #1112 ↗) to prevent accidentally running a vulnerable version of React with Vinext.

OpenNext on Cloudflare: OpenNext is an adapter that lets you deploy Next.js apps to the Cloudflare Workers platform. OpenNext itself is not directly vulnerable to the React denial-of-service CVE, but users must update the Next.js version in their application. The OpenNext team has updated the adapter to further harden against these vectors and released a new version of the Cloudflare adapter. Test fixtures and examples have been updated to use patched versions (PR #1255 ↗).

You can now export your Requests for Information (RFI) history to a CSV document and customize your dashboard view by choosing how many RFI records to load per page.

These quality-of-life updates focus on data portability and dashboard performance, allowing power users to manage high volumes of requests more efficiently:

• The new CSV export allows you to move RFI data into external tools for custom reporting, internal auditing, or cross-referencing with other security projects without manual data entry
• With adjustable page density, you can now choose to load more records at once (10, 25 or 50) to scan through history faster

Cloudforce One subscribers can find these new options in Cloudflare Dashboard > Application Security > Threat Intelligence > Requests for Information ↗.

This emergency release introduces a new rule to detect Next.js App Router middleware and proxy bypass attempts via segment-prefetch routes (CVE-2026-44575).

Key Findings

CVE-2026-44575: Next.js Middleware / Proxy Bypass in App Router Applications via Segment-Prefetch Routes

Successful exploitation allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass middleware or proxy-based authorization checks in affected Next.js App Router applications. This leads to unauthorized access to protected content, potential exposure of sensitive application data, and compromise of application security boundaries.

We strongly recommend upgrading to Next.js 15.5.16 or 16.2.5 (or later) immediately to address the underlying vulnerability. If you cannot upgrade immediately, enforce authorization in the underlying route or page logic instead of relying solely on middleware.

The Cloudforce One Threat Events API now supports TAXII ↗ as an output format, enabling standardized, automated sharing of cyber threat intelligence with your existing security stack.

• You can now ingest Cloudforce One threat data directly into your SIEM, TIP or SOAR tools that prefer TAXII-formatted streams without needing custom translation scripts.
• By supporting the TAXII format parameter in our API, security teams can automate the synchronization of indicator data, reducing the manual overhead of updating blocklists and detection rules.
• This alignment with industry standards ensures that your threat data remains consistent across different security ecosystems and partner integrations.

When calling the Threat Events API, you can now specify taxii in the format query parameter:

GET /accounts/{account_id}/cloudforce_one/threat_events?format=taxii

You can find the updated documentation in the Cloudflare API Reference ↗.

This week's release focuses on new detections to expand coverage across command injection, SQL injection, PHP object injection, remote code execution, and XSS attack vectors.

Key Findings

• Existing rule enhancements have been deployed to improve detection resilience against broad classes of web attacks and strengthen behavioral coverage.

Continuous Rule Improvements

We are continuously refining our managed rules to provide more resilient protection and deeper insights into attack patterns. To ensure an optimal security posture, we recommend consistently monitoring the Security Events dashboard and adjusting rule actions as these enhancements are deployed.

This emergency release introduces a new rule to block a cPanel & WHM Authentication Bypass related to CVE-2026-41940.

Key Findings

• CVE-2026-41940: A critical authentication bypass vulnerability in cPanel & WHM allows unauthenticated remote attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms and gain unauthorized administrative access to the web hosting control panel. This vulnerability affects the session validation logic, enabling attackers to craft malicious requests that circumvent normal authentication checks.

Impact

Successful exploitation allows unauthenticated attackers to gain administrative control over affected cPanel & WHM installations. This leads to complete server compromise, potential theft or manipulation of hosted data, and significant service disruption across managed environments.

We strongly recommend applying official vendor patches for cPanel & WHM immediately to address the underlying vulnerability.

We have introduced a unified investigation workspace within Brand Protection to help analysts manage complex brand portfolios. Instead of jumping between individual queries, you can now consolidate your workflow into a single, cohesive view.

• You can now elect multiple saved queries from your dashboard to generate a consolidated "Combined Matches" view. This allows you to triage results from different brand queries in one unified table
• You can open query extended views in distinct tabs within the Brand Protection dashboard. This enables you to maintain multiple investigation contexts simultaneously and switch between them without losing your place.
• You can reset your workspace using the new "Clear Selection" action, making it easier to pivot between different investigation sets.

• Eliminate fragmented workflows by viewing all matches across different query buckets in a single table, reducing the need to click through dozens of individual query pages
• Correlate related campaigns by seeing similar domains or infrastructure patterns that appear across multiple saved queries

Learn more in our Brand Protection documentation.

This week's release focuses on new improvements to enhance coverage.

Key Findings

• Existing rule enhancements have been deployed to improve detection resilience against broad classes of web attacks and strengthen behavioral coverage.

Continuous Rule Improvements

We are continuously refining our managed rules to provide more resilient protection and deeper insights into attack patterns. To ensure an optimal security posture, we recommend consistently monitoring the Security Events dashboard and adjusting rule actions as these enhancements are deployed.

This week's release introduces a new detection for a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ (CVE-2026-34197) and an updated signature for Magento 2 - Unrestricted File Upload. Alongside these detections, we are continuing our work on rule refinements to provide deeper security insights for our customers.

Key Findings

• Apache ActiveMQ (CVE-2026-34197): A vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. This flaw occurs during the processing of specially crafted network packets, leading to potential full system compromise.

• Magento 2 - Unrestricted File Upload - 2: This is a follow-up enhancement to our existing protections for Magento and Adobe Commerce.

Impact

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code or gain full administrative control over affected servers. We strongly recommend applying official vendor patches for Apache ActiveMQ and Magento to address the underlying vulnerabilities.

Continuous Rule Improvements

We are continuously refining our managed rules to provide more resilient protection and deeper insights into attack patterns. To ensure an optimal security posture, we recommend consistently monitoring the Security Events dashboard and adjusting rule actions as these enhancements are deployed.

Introducing enhanced archiving capabilities for security action items within the Security Overview dashboard. This update allows security teams to maintain a cleaner workspace by removing resolved, accepted, or irrelevant items from their active list while maintaining a clear paper trail for compliance.

Managing a high volume of security insights can be overwhelming. Previously, users lacked a structured way to dismiss items without losing the context of why they were ignored.

With these new archiving options—False Positive, Accept Risk, and Other—you can now suppress items indefinitely with required rationale text for risk-based decisions. This ensures that your team remains focused on critical, actionable vulnerabilities while preserving institutional knowledge for audits.

• Structured Archiving: Choose from specific categories to define why an action item is being moved.
• Required Rationale: For "Accept Risk" and "Other" categories, users must provide documentation, ensuring accountability for security decisions.
• Audit Log Transparency: New API endpoints allow you to programmatically retrieve the history of status changes and rationale for any insight at the account or zone level.
• Reversible Actions: Any archived item can be moved back to the active list at any time if the security context changes.

:::note Archiving a suspicious activity item will remove it from the Security Overview page, but the activity will remain visible in your Security Analytics dashboard for deeper forensic analysis. :::

To review the history and rationale of a specific archived issue at the account level, you can use the following API command:

curl "[https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/](https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/){account_id}/insights/{insight_id}/audit-log" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json"

This week's release introduces a new detection for a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Mesop (CVE-2026-33057), alongside protections for high-impact vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (CVE-2026-20079) and FortiClient EMS (CVE-2026-21643). Additionally, this release includes an update to our existing React Server DoS coverage to address recently identified resource exhaustion vectors (CVE-2026-23869).

Key Findings

• Cisco Secure FMC (CVE-2026-20079): A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands or bypass security filters.

• FortiClient EMS (CVE-2026-21643): A critical vulnerability in the FortiClient EMS permitting unauthorized access or administrative configuration manipulation via crafted HTTP requests.

• Mesop (CVE-2026-33057): A vulnerability in the Mesop Python-based UI framework where unauthenticated attackers can execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted, Base64-encoded payloads in the request body.

Impact

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code, gain administrative control over network management infrastructure, or trigger server-side resource exhaustion. Administrators are strongly encouraged to apply official vendor updates.

The decode script injected by Email Address Obfuscation now loads with the defer attribute. This means the script no longer blocks page rendering. It downloads in parallel with HTML parsing and executes after the document is fully parsed, before the DOMContentLoaded event.

This improves page loading performance, contributing to better Core Web Vitals, for all zones with Email Address Obfuscation on. No action is required.

If you have custom JavaScript that depends on email addresses being decoded at a specific point during page load, note that the decode script now executes after HTML parsing completes rather than inline during parsing.

You can now automate your threat monitoring by setting up custom alerts in your saved views. Instead of manually checking the dashboard for updates, you can subscribe to notifications that trigger whenever new data matches your specific filter sets, like new activity associated to a particular threat actor or spikes in activity within your industry.

By linking your saved views to the Cloudflare Notifications Center, you can ensure the right information reaches your team at the right time.

• Immediate Alerts: receive real-time notifications the moment a critical event is detected that matches your saved criteria. This is essential for high-priority monitoring, such as tracking active campaigns from specific APT groups.

• Daily Digests: opt for a summarized report delivered once a day. This is ideal for maintaining situational awareness of broader trends, like regional activity shifts or industry-wide threat landscapes, without cluttering your inbox.

To set up an alert, go to Application Security > Threat Intelligence > Threat Events. From there:

1. Choose your datasets and apply your desired filters and select Save View (or select an existing one).
2. Open the Manage Saved Views menu.
3. Select Add Alert next to your chosen view to configure your notification preferences in the Cloudflare dashboard.

For more technical details on configuring notifications, refer to the Threat Events documentation.

You can now manage mutual TLS (mTLS) and Bring Your Own Certificate Authority (BYO CA) configurations directly from the Cloudflare dashboard — no API required.

Previously, these advanced workflows required the Cloudflare API. The following are now available in the dashboard:

• AOP certificate management — Upload and manage your own certificate authorities for Authenticated Origin Pulls (AOP) directly from the dashboard.
• BYO Client mTLS certificate management — Upload and manage your own CA certificates for client mTLS enforcement without needing API access.
• CDN hostname to client mTLS certificate mapping — Associate client mTLS certificates with specific hostnames directly from the dashboard.

This week's release introduces new detections for a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in MCP Server (CVE-2026-23744), alongside targeted protection for an authentication bypass vulnerability in SolarWinds products (CVE-2025-40552). Additionally, this release includes a new generic detection rule designed to identify and block Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) injection attempts leveraging "OnEvent" handlers within HTTP cookies.

Key Findings

• MCP Server (CVE-2026-23744): A vulnerability in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation where malformed input payloads can trigger a memory corruption state, allowing for arbitrary code execution.

• SolarWinds (CVE-2025-40552): A critical flaw in the authentication module allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass security filters and gain unauthorized access to the management console due to improper identity token validation.

• XSS OnEvents Cookies: This generic rule identifies malicious event handlers (such as onload or onerror) embedded within HTTP cookie values.

Impact

Successful exploitation of the MCP Server and SolarWinds vulnerabilities could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code or gain administrative control, leading to a full system takeover. Additionally, the new generic XSS detection prevents attackers from leveraging browser event handlers in cookies to hijack user sessions or execute malicious scripts.