268533 - warning for Microsoft Passport site - server sends no CA certs

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Description

[kwanghan TAN]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

Firefox identifies the SSL certificate of Microsoft Passport.net site incorrectly.

Even if it was a mistake in the certificate installation by Microsoft, 
for compatibility reason, Firefox may need to work around it as Passport.net is
a major site due to hotmail.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.www.hotmail.com
2. Select "Net Account Signup" Tab
3. A FireFox Dialog popup with warning


Actual Results:  
Should continue without warning like MSIE. MSIE identify CA as RSA but Firefox
identifies as Mircrosft CA.

Expected Results:  
Should continue without warning like MSIE. MSIE identify CA as RSA but Firefox
identifies as Mircrosft CA.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> PSM 

But there will be no workaround added if the certificate is broken

Comment 2

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

The URL that actually experiences the dialog is 
https://lc2.bay0.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/login
That server sends its server cert and no other certs, no CA certs.
It's misconfigured.  

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 4

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Server was (is?) misconfigured, perhaps intentionally.  
That is not a bug in mozilla.