On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 12:02:51 PM UTC-7, Jonathan Rudenberg wrote:
> > On Jun 21, 2017, at 14:41, urijah--- via dev-security-policy 
> > <dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Apparently, in at least one case, the certificate was issued directly(!) to 
> > localhost by Symantec.
> > 
> > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14598262
> > 
> > subject=/C=US/ST=Florida/L=Melbourne/O=AuthenTec/OU=Terms of use at 
> > www.verisign.com/rpa (c)05/CN=localhost
> > issuer=/C=US/O=VeriSign, Inc./OU=VeriSign Trust Network/OU=Terms of use at 
> > https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10/CN=VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA - G3
> > reply
> > 
> > Is this a known incident?
> 
> Here is the (since expired) certificate: 
> https://crt.sh/?q=07C4AD287B850CAA3DD89656937DB1217067407AA8504A10382A8AD3838D153F

As bad as it may sound, issuing certs for internal server name from a public 
chain was allowed until Oct 2015 (as per BR).
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