Vendor evidence profile
Cloudflare: what the public record shows
nexalign keeps a continuously updated evidence record on Cloudflare for cloud and sovereign cloud decisions: 58 items from 3 kinds of source, covering September 2023 to July 2026. Every item on this page links to the source it came from, carrying the date that source states and saying so plainly where it states none.
In one line
This record holds 9 advisories attributed to Cloudflare products across 58 evidence items in total, none of them in the CISA catalogue of known exploited vulnerabilities. 100 percent of the record comes from sources Cloudflare cannot edit. Whether Cloudflare suits your decision is not on this page: that depends on your criteria, your compliance scope and your shortlist, and this record does not know them.
Evidence items
58
in this record
Attributed advisories
9
none known exploited
Authoritative share
67%
government registers
Last checked
Jul 17, 2026
sources re-queried
How independent is this record
Sources are not equal. A vendor can rewrite its own website overnight and optimise it for whatever a language model is likely to quote. It cannot edit a government vulnerability register or a years-old discussion thread. Every item in this record is classified by how much the vendor could influence it, and the score below is the weighted result.
Independence of this record
Objectivity score 87/100
- Authoritative
- 39 items, 67 percent
- Independent
- 19 items, 33 percent
- Vendor-controlled
- 0 items, 0 percent
100 percent of this record comes from sources Cloudflare does not control. The remainder is Cloudflare's own material and is marked as such wherever it appears.
Where this record comes from
These are the sources that contributed to the Cloudflare record, with the body that operates each one. No rating, score or ranking is taken from anywhere, and no vendor pays to appear in this index or to change what it says.
| Source | Operated by | Classification | Items | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| European Vulnerability Database | ENISA, European Union | Authoritative | 39 | Jul 14, 2026 |
| Engineering discussions | Hacker News, public threads | Independent | 16 | Jun 04, 2026 |
| Analyst, review and reference sources | Recognised analysts, review marketplaces and technology press | Independent | 3 | Jul 17, 2026 |
Documented vulnerabilities
Vulnerability registers are searched by keyword, so an advisory about a different product often mentions Cloudflare in passing. An entry is only listed here when a structural signal ties it to a product of Cloudflare: an advisory reference on the vendor's own domain, Cloudflare as the assigning authority, or the affected product list naming it. 9 records passed that test.
- CVE-2026-12523highCVSS 7.5Jul 14, 2026
Summary Cloudflare quiche's HTTP/3 layer was discovered to be vulnerable to resource exhaustion (i.e., memory) by means of specially crafted HTTP/3 frames.
- CVE-2026-12707highCVSS 7.5Jul 14, 2026
Summary Cloudflare quiche was discovered to be vulnerable to memory resource exhaustion due to unbounded queuing of post-handshake client migration events.
- CVE-2026-14440highCVSS 7.6Jul 01, 2026
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.
- CVE-2026-11941mediumCVSS 5.6Jun 19, 2026
Cloudflare Quiche was affected by 2 use-after-free vulnerabilities in the connection ID iterator FFI functions.
- CVE-2026-2836highCVSS 8.4Mar 04, 2026
A cache poisoning vulnerability has been found in the Pingora HTTP proxy framework’s default cache key construction.
- CVE-2026-2835criticalCVSS 9.3Mar 04, 2026
An HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability (CWE-444) has been found in Pingora's parsing of HTTP/1.0 and Transfer-Encoding requests.
3 further attributed records are held in the pool. DecisionOS shows the full set against the components you actually run.
What practitioners report
Public threads in which engineers and administrators discuss running this product. Only threads naming Cloudflare in their own title are listed, so a discussion about someone else's incident cannot end up under this vendor. Not curated for sentiment: 16 threads in the record, most recent first.
- Hacker NewsJun 04, 2026Independent
VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
- Hacker NewsMay 31, 2026Independent
Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
- Hacker NewsMay 07, 2026Independent
Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
- Hacker NewsMay 06, 2026Independent
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
- Hacker NewsApr 12, 2026Independent
Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
Independent coverage
Recognised analysts, review marketplaces and neutral technology press that name Cloudflare. This section runs on a fixed list of such outlets rather than on whatever a web search returns for the company name, because that search is dominated by sales-intelligence profiles and directory listings which say nothing about the product. Social networks and press-release wires are excluded outright.
- gartner.comdate not recordedIndependent
Cloudflare Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights
- gartner.comdate not recordedIndependent
Cloudflare Reviews & Ratings 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights
- en.wikipedia.orgdate not recordedIndependent
Cloudflare - Wikipedia
What Cloudflare publishes about itself
The vendor's own documentation, kept separate from everything above and marked as vendor-controlled. It is useful, and it is a claim until an independent source confirms it.
What this record cannot tell you
A record is only trustworthy if it is explicit about its holes. These are the ones in the Cloudflare record right now.
A further 30 register entries mention Cloudflare without naming a product of Cloudflare as affected. They are excluded rather than counted as vulnerabilities.
Pricing, contract terms, notice periods and support commitments are not part of any public register. They come from the vendor and belong in a negotiation record.
Certification status such as ISO 27001, SOC 2 or BSI C5 has to be checked against the current certificate and its stated scope. A valid certificate can still exclude the product being bought.
Whether Cloudflare is the right choice is not on this page
A record of what is true about a vendor is one half of a decision. The other half is your context: which criteria matter, how heavily each one weighs, what is a hard no, and who has to sign the result off. No public page can know that, and any page that claims to rank vendors for you is guessing at it.
Typical criteria for this category
Needs your case- Data Sovereignty & Residencyweight
- Certifications (BSI C5, ISO 27001, SOC 2)weight
- Scalability & Performanceweight
- Migration Complexityweight
- Vendor Lock-in Riskweight
Criteria shown as examples for cloud and sovereign cloud. Weighting and fit are properties of your decision, not of the vendor, so they are not published here.
What DecisionOS adds on top of this record
- The vendor scored against your criteria with your weighting, not against a generic ranking
- A dealbreaker check against your hard constraints: data residency, contract terms, existing stack
- A side-by-side view of the alternatives on your shortlist, built from this same evidence pool
- This evidence mapped onto your compliance scope: NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, SOC 2
- A decision memo your board can read, with the trade-offs and the reasoning on the record
Questions this page answers
Is Cloudflare a safe choice?
The public record holds 9 advisories attributed to Cloudflare products and 58 evidence items in total. None of them appears in the CISA catalogue of known exploited vulnerabilities. Whether that is acceptable depends on your risk appetite, your compliance scope and the alternatives on your shortlist, none of which a public page can know. This page reports the record; it does not rate the vendor.
Where does the Cloudflare data on this page come from?
From 3 kinds of source: European Vulnerability Database, operated by ENISA, European Union; Engineering discussions, operated by Hacker News, public threads; Analyst, review and reference sources, operated by Recognised analysts, review marketplaces and technology press. Every item carries its source URL and, where the source states one, its date.
Does Cloudflare pay to appear in this index?
No. There is no paid placement, no sponsored profile and no way for a vendor to change what the record says. Vendors are listed because their category comes up in enterprise technology decisions. Corrections to a specific entry can be sent to [email protected] and are checked against the source.
How much of the Cloudflare record is the vendor's own material?
0 percent. The remaining 100 percent comes from sources Cloudflare does not control. Vendor-published material stays in the record and is labelled as vendor-controlled rather than counted as independent confirmation.
Why does this page not say whether Cloudflare is better than the alternatives?
Because better only exists relative to a decision. Which criteria matter, how heavily each one weighs and what counts as a dealbreaker are properties of the buyer, not of the vendor. DecisionOS takes this same evidence pool and scores it against the criteria of an actual decision, which is where a comparison becomes meaningful.
How this record is built
Sources are queried on a schedule, not on request. Findings are stored with the source URL, the event date and a content hash, so the same item is never counted twice and every statement stays traceable to where it came from.
Nothing on this page is written by a language model. Counts are counts, dates are the dates the sources carry, and titles are the sources' own wording. Where a section is empty, that is a finding in itself and is stated as one.
Corrections are welcome. If an entry is wrong or an attribution is off, write to [email protected] and it gets checked against the source.
Citing this page
nexalign GmbH, Cloudflare: what the public record shows, nexalign vendor evidence index, Jul 17, 2026. Available at nexalign.io/vendors/cloudflare.
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Turn this record into a decision you can defend
DecisionOS takes the same evidence pool this page is built from, weighs it against the criteria of your actual decision, and produces a memo that holds up in front of a board and an auditor.