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SQ20111

Detected digital signatures made with a certificate issued by an unknown certificate authority.

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About the issue​

Digital signatures are applied to applications, packages and documents as a cryptographically secured authenticity record. Signatures are made using digital certificates, which can either be purchased from certificate authorities or be self-issued. Lists of trusted certificate authorities can typically be found in certificate stores in your operating system or internet browser. Unless the digital signature ends its signing chain with a trusted certificate, it is not considered to be trustworthy. Releasing software components signed with such certificates may result in application errors and availability outages.

How to resolve the issue​

  • Acquire a new certificate and re-sign the software component, then publish the software package again.

Incidence statistics​

ReversingLabs periodically collects and analyzes the contents of popular software package repositories for threat research purposes.

For every repository, the chart shows the percentage of projects that triggered the software assurance policy. In other words, it shows how many projects were found to have the specific issue described on this page.

The percentages are calculated from the total amount of packages analyzed:

  • RubyGems: 174K
  • Nuget: 189K
  • PyPi: 403K
  • NPM: 2.1M