Security Certificate Issue

Outage category: 
Website
Location: 
Specific Drupal based websites
Status: 
Closed
Resolved alert: 
07/01/2021 12:06 pm

Users received a certificate expired or domain mismatch error for select Drupal sites behind firewall

Initial symptoms: 

Customers received SSL errors when trying to reach certain websites.

Duration: 
07/01/2021 9:50 am - 07/01/2021 12:06 pm
Impact to Mason: 

Website visitors could not reach certain websites.

Affected Services: 
Web Hosting
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Cause: 
Vendor SSL certificate expiration
Resolution: 

An emergency ticket was opened with firewall vendor. They removed the custom SSL cert and reverted sites to use their built-in, auto-renewing certificate.

Prevention: 

Vendor has issued new certs that auto-renew and is proactively searching for other websites in our account that may encounter this issue.

STATISTICS
Service Team: 
WAS