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Bugzilla #1777128 Certificate Misissuance

GoDaddy: Misissuance of Cross Signed Certs

RESOLVED FIXED GoDaddy
AI Summary

GoDaddy reported the misissuance of two cross certificates on June 22, 2022, which incorrectly used generalizedTime encoding instead of the required UTCTime encoding. This violation of Baseline Requirements was identified through internal linter checks shortly after the certificates were generated. The misissued certificates were revoked on June 27, 2022, and GoDaddy has since updated their certificate generation process to prevent future occurrences. The issue was isolated to these two certificates, and no subscriber certificates were affected.

Model: gpt-4o-mini Generated: 2026-06-13 21:29 UTC Confidence: 1.00
Chronology
  1. Misissued two cross certificates with incorrect time encoding
  2. Revoked the misissued certificates
  3. Reported the issue in Bugzilla
  4. Completed updates to the certificate generation process
Participants
daryn@godaddy.com brittany@godaddy.com jcristau@mozilla.com release-mgmt-account-bot@mozilla.tld bwilson@mozilla.com
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