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The Linux community's favorite browser just exposed a security flaw
['Gavin Phillips', 'Hamed Paydarfar']
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Summary Mozilla exposed a private GPG signing subkey but found no evidence that an unauthorized party accessed or misused it.
Mozilla has admitted that it exposed a private GPG signing subkey in a private GitHub repository, forcing the company to revoke and replace it.
However, Mozilla’s mistake demonstrates that even those protections have a weak point: the publisher must keep its private signing key private.
Nevertheless, an exposed private signing key could present a serious risk.
The first group consists of Linux users who manually verify Mozilla’s GPG signatures for Firefox or Thunderbird downloads.