Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2013-20

Mis-issued TURKTRUST certificates

Announced
January 8, 2013
Reporter
Google
Impact
Critical
Products
Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Thunderbird ESR
Fixed in
  • Firefox 18
  • Firefox ESR 10.0.12
  • Firefox ESR 17.0.2
  • SeaMonkey 2.15
  • Thunderbird 17.0.2
  • Thunderbird ESR 10.0.12
  • Thunderbird ESR 17.0.2

Description

Google reported to Mozilla that TURKTRUST, a certificate authority in Mozilla’s root program, had mis-issued two intermediate certificates to customers. The issue was not specific to Firefox but there was evidence that one of the certificates was used for man-in-the-middle (MITM) traffic management of domain names that the customer did not legitimately own or control. This issue was resolved by revoking the trust for these specific mis-issued certificates.

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