281168 - SSL Certificate not recognized although certificate issuer certificate issued by known CA

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Description

[Markus Ihalainen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Firefox (or Mozilla 1.7.3) doesn't seem to recognize any certification paths. In
the example of www.verkkoposti.com there is a certificate that is issued by
Thawte SGC CA. Thawte SGC CA is an unknown CA but its certificate is issued by
VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary CA, which is recognized as a CA by Firefox.

Internet Explorer doesn't recognize Thawte SGC CA either, but as it recognizes
that its issuer certificate is issued by Verisign Class 3 Public Primary CA, it
accepts the certificate of www.verkkoposti.com and the certification path shows
Verisign Class 3 Public Primary CA -> Thawte SGC CA -> www.verkkoposti.com.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to https://www.verkkoposti.com/e3/Identification?lang=en
Actual Results:  
"Web Site certified by an Unknown Authority" window appears.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have recognized the certificate without asking the user to accept it.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> PSM

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.