Intermediate certs allow anyone to mint web credentials for any Internet server.

Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237.

exploiting compromised certificates requires an active adversary-in-the-middle attack, meaning the attacker must act as a proxy between two TLS parties and receive encrypted traffic, decrypt it, reencrypt it, and send it to the other party. Such capabilities, in some cases, are usually limited to only the most well-resourced attackers. People with control of a local network—at a coffee shop, university, or other organization—face much less of a challenge.

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

Xkcd 221: int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random. }

  • BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    24 hours ago

    Okay, that’s fun and scary at the same time.

    The article links to a webpage,

    https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

    That shows if your browser is still using those certs, and though it says Firefox has already updated, maybe it hasn’t reached mobile yet as it shows I’m using them all still.

    I guess I won’t connect to anything important for a few days.

    • bazzett@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      19 hours ago

      Uhh… Weird. In my phone (Android 15) both Firefox 158.0.1 and Brave 1.97.59 (Chromium 155.0.8059.85) connect to 6 of the 12 hosts.

      But on my tablet (Android 10) I have the same versions of Firefox and Brave, and there they don’t connect to any of the hosts.

      What can I do?

    • cheeseburger@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      22 hours ago

      For mobile

      • Vanadium 155.0.8059.84 (config 217) on GrapheneOS connects to 6/12 0/12. Last updated 2026-10-17
      • Fennec 158.0.0 (build #1580020) connects to 12/12. Last updated 2026-10-14
      • edited: after I hit ‘run again’ a couple times Vanadium went 0/12, so hurray. Didn’t make a difference to my dear Fennec though.
      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        22 hours ago

        My Vanadium just refused all 12 connections. But maybe some of the DNS blocking or Suricata on my LAN might have helped.

        • cheeseburger@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          22 hours ago

          Thanks, I tried harder and got the same result as you. Edited my comment above to reflect.

      • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        21 hours ago

        I just recently swapped to Fennec and it’s correctly getting 0/12. These updates seem a bit inconsistent.

    • ArgentRaven@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      23 hours ago

      I’m on a 10/7 build and I’m vulnerable on mobile FireFox, as well.

      Edit: updated to a 10/19 version, 158.0.1, and it’s still vulnerable.