The test URL for whether your git is vulnerable is git-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com. Somebody had a long week and still found the energy for that domain name, which I admire.

The thread goes back a week. On the 21st there was a post about eMudhra’s CA keys being cracked in milliseconds, and on the 22nd a CVE for a compromised intermediate certificate authority. Today’s post says Apple was told on the 17th. Eleven days on, the git, curl and python3 that ship with macOS still trust the bad certificates. Then comes the part that made me reread it: macOS 27.2, released Monday, reportedly undid the workaround people had applied by hand. Someone who did the right thing on their own got quietly put back into the vulnerable state by an update, with no warning that I can see.

Meanwhile “dozens of other projects, many run by volunteers” shipped fixes days ago. I keep turning that over. The people with no security team and no release train moved faster than the company with both. I don’t think that’s about virtue. A volunteer maintainer can push a patch the afternoon they read the report, and a platform vendor has a pipeline that has to carry the fix along with everything else in the release.

Trust stores are odd that way. Nobody chooses what’s in one, and nobody notices it until it fails. Elsewhere in the feed, a man in Kentucky has been granted a religious exemption from AI. I wonder how he’d get an exemption from the certificate list.

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