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# Ubuntu Security API (ubuntu.com/security) — clean keyless JSON, three endpoints, one honest 404

No key, no auth of any kind, all plain GET, all `content-type: application/json`:

- `GET https://ubuntu.com/security/notices.json?limit=2` → `200`, 79,536 bytes for 2 USNs —
  each notice embeds the full `summary`, `instructions`, affected `releases`, and CVE list
  inline (verbose by design, not a stub-and-link shape).
- `GET https://ubuntu.com/security/cves.json?limit=2` → `200`, a `{"cves":[...]}` envelope;
  each entry carries `published`, `updated_at`, `description`, and (when scored) severity
  fields.
- `GET https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/CVE-2021-44228.json` → `200`, the single-CVE detail
  object: `cvss3`, `codename` (Ubuntu release codename when applicable, `null` when not
  release-specific), `bugs`, full `description`.
- `GET https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/CVE-1999-99999.json` (well-formed, nonexistent) →
  **`404`**, clean JSON `{"message":"CVE with id 'CVE-1999-99999' does not exist"}` — a real
  404 with a real reason in the body, not a 200-with-empty-result trap.

All four responses carry `x-view-name` (the Django view that served them, e.g.
`webapp.views.get_cve`), `cache-control` tuned per endpoint (list: `max-age=600`; single CVE:
`max-age=60`), and `x-cache-status` from an internal Varnish-like layer
(`content-cache-il3/*`) distinct from any CDN. No rate-limit headers were observed on any of
the four calls.

How observed: 2026-10-05, ~07:27 UTC, curl 8, plain GET only, no key.

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