CRA 24/72/14 Reporting Lint (Article 14)

On 11 September 2026 the EU Cyber Resilience Act's reporting obligation started applying — including to products already on the market. From that date, a manufacturer who becomes aware of an actively exploited vulnerability or a severe incident owes three filings on a clock measured in hours: an early warning within 24 hours, a notification within 72 hours, and a final report within 14 days of a corrective measure being available. They go to ENISA and to the CSIRT designated as coordinator for your main establishment, through the single reporting platform.

Most SECURITY.md files in public repositories were written before any of that existed. They promise a reply "within 5 business days", point at a supervisory authority, or repeat the December 2027 date that belongs to the other obligations. This extension reads that file and names every line that will not survive contact with Article 14.

Findings in the output panel

What it checks — 18 rules, offline

Group	Examples
The clock	24-hour early warning, 72-hour notification, 14-day final report
The recipients	ENISA named, coordinating CSIRT named, single reporting platform named
The triggers	"actively exploited" defined, "severe incident" defined
The mistakes	December 2027 quoted as the reporting start date, reports routed to a supervisory authority, the GDPR 72-hour clock treated as the same obligation, a response window measured in days sitting beside one measured in hours
The supporting facts	single point of contact, coordinated disclosure policy, SBOM reference, support period end date in ISO form — and whether that date has already lapsed or falls short of five years

Every finding carries the article it comes from and one concrete line to write instead. Nothing is sent anywhere: the rule table ships inside the extension and the whole run happens in your editor.

Use it

Open SECURITY.md, your disclosure policy, or the incident runbook.
Run CRA 24/72/14: Check this file from the command palette.
Read the findings in the output panel and fix them.

That is the free scope, and it is the whole rule set — no watermark, no trial counter, no withheld finding.

The full version widens the scope: it sweeps every Markdown file in the workspace in one pass, works out which checks are answered nowhere in the repository rather than merely missing from one file, and writes a single dated CRA-24-72-14-READINESS.md you can hand to an auditor. Run CRA 24/72/14: Sweep the whole workspace to unlock it with a licence key.

Full workspace sweep and report: free for 7 days from your first sweep, then a licence key.

Settings

craReporting.min_severity — hide findings below info, warn or error.
craReporting.today — pin the date used for support-period arithmetic, so a report reproduces later.
craReporting.include_glob — which files the workspace sweep reads. Defaults to **/*.md.

Honest limits

This is a linter for a document, not a legal opinion and not a conformity assessment. It tells you that your runbook never names a CSIRT; it cannot tell you whether your product is in scope, which class it falls into, or whether a given vulnerability is being actively exploited. Article 14 also allows a one-month final report for severe incidents, and open-source stewards carry a lighter duty under Article 24 — the rules here flag the manufacturer path.

Regulation (EU) 2024/2847, Articles 13, 14 and 16; Annex I Part II; Annex II. Other tools from the same workshop: https://getreadystack.com

CRA 24/72/14 Reporting Lint (Article 14)

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CRA 24/72/14 Reporting Lint (Article 14)

What it checks — 18 rules, offline

Use it

Settings

Honest limits