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Bugzilla #1777270 Certificate Misissuance

Certainly: Intermediate certificates with wrong time encoding

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AI Summary

The reporter identified intermediate certificates with wrong time encoding and noted that the affected certificates were already revoked. The reporter stated they did not see an incident report for this issue and provided links to the certificates on crt.sh. Mozilla staff responded that the certificates were issued by GoDaddy, not Certainly. The bug was then marked as a duplicate of bug 1777128. The thread does not describe any CA remediation action by Certainly beyond the duplicate resolution.

Model: gpt-5.4-nano Generated: 2026-06-13 21:26 UTC Revised: 2026-06-16 18:17 UTC Confidence: 0.86 2 comments
Chronology
  1. A third party reported intermediate certificates with wrong time encoding that were already revoked.
Thread Activity
  1. Lebihan representative — Reported intermediate certificates with wrong time encoding, said they were already revoked, and provided crt.sh links while noting no incident report was visible.
  2. Mozilla representative — Clarified the certificates were issued by GoDaddy (not Certainly) and marked the bug as a duplicate of bug 1777128.
Participants
Lebihan representative Mozilla representative
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