Summary

Acunetix 360 detected that the SSL Certificate is not signed by the trusted root.

Impact

It can impact both website and the users:

  • Warning error messages displayed by browsers when visiting the site
  • Personal information at risk from man-in-the-middle attacks
  • Reduction in trust as the site becomes insecure
  • Ability for an attacker to create identical phishing website

Remediation

The process of fixing untrusted root certificate issues varies depending on the host or the certificate authority used. Please refer to the corresponding documentation.

Severity

Medium

Classification

CWE-295 OWASP 2017-A3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N