I was hoping to ask for some assistance from the Digicert CT team (perhaps @RickRoos ?) to investigate an Incident we filed a Bugzilla report for here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1969296
We received two SCTs from Yeti2025 on 2025-05-21 which didn’t correspond to the precertificates we submitted. Embedding those into the final certificates without verifying the actual signature was the primary cause of the incident.
The final certs are available here (both revoked now):
https://crt.sh/?id=18536829926 (CN=karenkalkstein.com)
https://crt.sh/?id=18813460780 (CN=ogradycenter.com)
We've added SCT signature verification logic to prevent this rare issue. We’ve also shared the submission details with you below. Could you check if anything on your end—or in our submissions—may have caused the invalid responses? Identifying any additional factors will help us prevent this in the future, which would benefit both of us.
Thank you very much!
-Matt
--- BEGIN SUBMISSION DETAILS ---
(CN=karenkalkstein.com)
2025-05-21T10:31:02.411Z
Request: POST https://yeti2025.ct.digicert.com/log/ct/v1/add-pre-chain
Request Payload:
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}
Response: 200
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"sct_version": 0,
"id": "fVkeEuF4KnscYWd8Xv340IdcFKBOlZ65Ay/ZDowuebg=",
"timestamp": 1747823462392
}
(CN=ogradycenter.com)
2025-05-21T10:31:24.536Z
Request: POST https://yeti2025.ct.digicert.com/log/ct/v1/add-pre-chain
Request Payload:
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}
Response: 200
Payload:
{
"extensions": "",
"signature": "BAMARjBEAiBRCqr41r6b7ma8N/UGhZAPh7kODxhmHBGguFBcPlsyWQIgBv735B51Zw7N5EWq3q+PGIXEGPLQZMXiIwWul3nEqpI=",
"sct_version": 0,
"id": "fVkeEuF4KnscYWd8Xv340IdcFKBOlZ65Ay/ZDowuebg=",
"timestamp": 1747819147394
}
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