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CA key compromise·8 intermediate CAs·16 certificates·CVE-2026-111943

eMudhra CA compromise check

The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CAs can be calculated from their public certificates. Anyone holding one can issue a certificate for any website. Find out whether your sites, servers and clients are affected, and what to change before Chrome removes the root on 27 Oct 2026.

Compromised CAs
8 keys · 16 certificates
Chrome removes emSign ECC Root CA - G3
27 Oct 2026
Root cause
P-384 private keys below 256
Data updated
23 Oct 2026
Browsers are protected. Much of the rest of your estate may not be.
Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari block these CAs through revocation lists and enforce Certificate Transparency. curl, Python, Java, Go, Node.js, Git, appliances and containers don't consult those lists and usually don't check CT. A CA bundle that still contains emSign ECC Root CA - G3 or AAA Certificate Services accepts a forged certificate for any site.

Check your exposure

Four questions: did a CA issue for your names, is a chain affected, does this browser trust it, and do your systems trust it?

Search Certificate Transparency for your domain

We look up every unexpired certificate logged for the name in the public CT logs, then check its issuer against the 8 compromised CAs and the whole emSign ECC Root CA - G3 hierarchy. We never connect to your site. CT data is public, so you don't need to own the domain.

Queries Cert Spotter (crt.sh as a fallback). Results are cached for an hour; nothing else is stored.

Fix it

Pick what you're fixing. Vendor updates come first: they remove the roots and block the keys in a tested way. The manual workarounds are for machines that can't update yet, and each has a cost.

    Trade-off

    Were you hit? Things to check

    The keys could be calculated from April 2025 onwards, but Google reports no certificates chaining to these CAs were logged to CT before the 17 Oct 2026 block. The realistic risk is a forged certificate shown to a client that checks neither revocation nor CT. These checks look for that.

    The certificates and the timeline

    Every verdict is based on this data. Fingerprints were recomputed from the certificates and match Mozilla's incident report and the researchers' published list. Last updated 23 Oct 2026. Raw JSON · All 16 compromised certificates (PEM).

    Compromised intermediate CAs

    Each key was issued twice: once by eMudhra's own root and once as a Sectigo cross-sign under AAA Certificate Services. Both carry the same key.

    Compromised certificates
    CAUseIssued bySHA-256SHA-1 (Windows thumbprint)Key (SPKI SHA-256)

    Also affected by the root removal

    These CAs weren't compromised, but they chain to emSign ECC Root CA - G3. Certificates they issued stop working in Chrome on 27 Oct 2026 and already fail in Firefox and updated Linux CA bundles. eMudhra estimated about 30,000 certificates need migrating.

    Distrusted hierarchy
    CAUseKey (SPKI SHA-256)crt.sh

    What the root programs did

    StoreAction

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