Open Bug 1601765 Opened 5 years ago Updated 2 years ago

suggest users check trust settings when encountering SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER

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(Firefox :: Security, enhancement, P5)

enhancement

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(Reporter: nico, Unassigned)

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(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0

Steps to reproduce:

After updating to v71.0, I'm not able to access sites that use a Certum signed certificate like https://www.certum.pl (which looks like the page of that signing party?) or www.dolzer.com (an online shop for suits)

Actual results:

Pages won't load with the error code "SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER", and the link to display the full certificate yields another error page

Additional information: using Chrome, everything works fine

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0
20191202093317

Both links work for me, though https://www.certum.pl carries a low encryption warning because it doesn't support TLS 1.2.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/tls-1-0-and-1-1-removal-update/

Has STR: --- → yes
Component: Untriaged → Security: PSM
Product: Firefox → Core

If you open the certificate manager (about:preferences -> search for "certificates" -> click View Certificates -> click Authorities), find and select "Certum Trusted Network CA" (under "Unizeto Technologies S.A."), and click Edit Trust, is the websites checkbox checked?`

Flags: needinfo?(nico)

(In reply to Dana Keeler (she/her) (use needinfo) (:keeler for reviews) from comment #3)

If you open the certificate manager (about:preferences -> search for "certificates" -> click View Certificates -> click Authorities), find and select "Certum Trusted Network CA" (under "Unizeto Technologies S.A."), and click Edit Trust, is the websites checkbox checked?`

Thanks for replying! That checkbox is not checked. On checking it, everything works again. But just to be picky: shouldn't this be a situation where the cause of an error should be more obvious?

Flags: needinfo?(nico)

We could suggest users check this on the error page, but it would be a fair bit of work.

Type: defect → enhancement
Component: Security: PSM → Security
Product: Core → Firefox
Summary: Firefox 71.0 won't load Certum certificates → suggest users check trust settings when encountering SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER
Version: 71 Branch → Trunk
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Priority: -- → P5
Severity: normal → S3
Severity: normal → S3
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