eMudhra CA Compromise: Find and Fix Your Exposure with Tanium
On October 17, 2026, a researcher reported that eight intermediate certificate authorities (CAs) run by eMudhra have private keys that anyone can calculate from the public certificates. Six of the CAs are for TLS (website) certificates and two are for code signing. Sectigo cross-signed the same eight keys, so 16 certificates are affected in total With these keys, anyone can issue a certificate for any website, or sign software, and it chains to root CAs that many systems trust.