This page hosts the list of affected serial numbers and a hostname checking utility for the incident reported at https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2020-02-29-caa-rechecking-bug/114591. We have sent notification emails to affected subscribers who have registered an email address. If you need to re-subscribe to email notifications, please see this document. You may not have received an email if you did not provide an email address while registering your ACME account. You may also be missing a...| letsencrypt.org
After learning about and remediating a bug in our CAA checking code [1] on 2020-02-29 UTC (the evening of Friday February 28, U.S. Eastern time), we announced that we would be revoking approximately 2.6% of our active certificates that were potentially affected by the bug, totalling approximately 3 million certificates [2]. We announced the plan to revoke because even though the vast majority of the certificates in question do not pose a security risk, industry rules require that we revoke ce...| Let's Encrypt Community Support
On 2020-02-29 UTC, Let’s Encrypt found a bug in our CAA code. Our CA software, Boulder, checks for CAA records at the same time it validates a subscriber’s control of a domain name. Most subscribers issue a certificate immediately after domain control validation, but we consider a validation good for 30 days. That means in some cases we need to check CAA records a second time, just before issuance. Specifically, we have to check CAA within 8 hours prior to issuance (per BRs §3.2.2.8), so...| Let's Encrypt Community Support
[Update 2020-03-05: The most up-to-date summary is at 2020.02.29 CAA Rechecking Bug] Due to the 2020.02.29 CAA Rechecking Bug, we unfortunately need to revoke many Let’s Encrypt TLS/SSL certificates. We’re e-mailing affected subscribers for whom we have contact information. This post and thread will collect answers to frequently asked questions about this revocation, and how to avoid problems by renewing affected certificates early. If you’re affected, please: thoroughly read this threa...| Let's Encrypt Community Support
