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Do you want to offer some? It's not clear this even bypassed payment that should have been due. That would be worse, and still not really a vulnerability.

> Think of all the spam that would have happened, had this been discovered on underground black-hat forums.

What spam would have happened as a result of early access to a new Cloudflare feature, that's independent of any (other) bugs/security flaws in that feature?

(Also, even with the actual vulnerability here, what 'spam' would have happened? This hijacks recieving. Worse, yes, but I don't see how it helps spammers.)




Accessing functionality you should not otherwise have access to is by definition a vulnerability. CF apparently agrees since they paid out a bounty for it.


> CF apparently agrees since they paid out a bounty for it.

Not really, it was mentioned as part of a report of the main, much more critical issue of 'hijacking email with Cloudflare Email Routing' - note that's the title itself, not 'accessing a cloudflare beta feature'...




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