curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate

Question

root@sclrdev:/home/sclr/certs/FreshCerts# curl --ftp-ssl --verbose ftp://{abc}/ -u trup:trup --cacert /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
* About to connect() to {abc} port 21 (#0)
*   Trying {abc}...
* Connected to {abc} ({abc}) port 21 (#0)
< 220-Cerberus FTP Server - Home Edition
< 220-This is the UNLICENSED Home Edition and may be used for home, personal use only
< 220-Welcome to Cerberus FTP Server
< 220 Created by Cerberus, LLC
> AUTH SSL
< 234 Authentication method accepted
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, CERT (11):
* SSLv3, TLS alert, Server hello (2):
* SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
* Closing connection 0
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl performs SSL certificate verification by default, using a "bundle"
 of Certificate Authority (CA) public keys (CA certs). If the default
 bundle file isn't adequate, you can specify an alternate file
 using the --cacert option.
If this HTTPS server uses a certificate signed by a CA represented in
 the bundle, the certificate verification probably failed due to a
 problem with the certificate (it might be expired, or the name might
 not match the domain name in the URL).
If you'd like to turn off curl's verification of the certificate, use
 the -k (or --insecure) option.

Answer 1

Relating to 'SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate' error. It is important to note that this applies to the system sending the CURL request, and NOT the server receiving the request.

1. Download the latest cacert.pem from https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem

2. Add the following line to php.ini: (if this is shared hosting and you don't have access to php.ini then you could add this to .user.ini in public_html).

   curl.cainfo="/path/to/downloaded/cacert.pem"

   Make sure you enclose the path within double quotation marks!!!

3. By default, the FastCGI process will parse new files every 300 seconds (if required you can change the frequency by adding a couple of files as suggested here https://ss88.uk/blog/fast-cgi-and-user-ini-files-the-new-htaccess/).

Answer 2

It is failing as cURL is unable to verify the certificate provided by the server.

There are two options to get this to work:

1. Use cURL with -k option which allows curl to make insecure connections, that is cURL does not verify the certificate.

2. Add the root CA (the CA signing the server certificate) to /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

You should use option 2 as it's the option that ensures that you are connecting to secure FTP server.

Answer 3

I have solved this problem by adding one line code in cURL script:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

Warning: This makes the request absolute insecure (see answer by @YSU)!

Answer 4

In my case it turned out to be a problem with the installation of my certificate on the service I was trying to consume with cURL. I failed to bundle/concatenate the intermediate and root certificates into my domain certificate. It wasn't obvious at first that this was the problem because Chrome worked it out and accepted the certificate in spite of leaving out the intermediate and root certificates.

After bundling the certificate, everything worked as expected. I bundled like this

$ cat intermediate.crt >> domain.crt

And repeated for all intermediate and the root certificate.

Answer 5

For me, simple install of certificates helped:

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates

Answer 6

Had this problem after install Git Extensions v3.48. Tried to install mysysgit again but same problem. At the end, had to disable (please consider security implications!) Git SSL verification with:

git config --global http.sslVerify false

but if you have a domain certificate better add it to (Win7)

C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\curl-ca-bundle.crt

Answer 7

We ran into this error recently. Turns out it was related to the root cert not being installed in the CA store directory properly. I was using a curl command where I was specifying the CA dir directly. curl --cacert /etc/test/server.pem --capath /etc/test ... This command was failing every time with curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate.

After using strace curl ..., it was determined that curl was looking for the root cert file with a name of 60ff2731.0, which is based on an openssl hash naming convetion. So I found this command to effectively import the root cert properly:

ln -s rootcert.pem `openssl x509 -hash -noout -in rootcert.pem`.0

which creates a softlink

60ff2731.0 -> rootcert.pem

curl, under the covers read the server.pem cert, determined the name of the root cert file (rootcert.pem), converted it to its hash name, then did an OS file lookup, but could not find it.

So, the takeaway is, use strace when running curl when the curl error is obscure (was a tremendous help), and then be sure to properly install the root cert using the openssl naming convention.

Answer 8

It is most likely a missing cert from the server.

Root->Intermediate->Server

A server should send the Server & Intermediate as a minimum.

Use openssl s_client -showcerts -starttls ftp -crlf -connect abc:21 to debug the issue.

If only one cert is returned (either self signed, or issued), then you must choose to either:

1. have the server fixed
2. trust that cert and add it to your CA cert store (not the best idea)
3. disable trust, e.g. curl -k (very bad idea)

If the server returned, more than one, but not including a self signed (root) cert:

1. install the CA (root) cert in your CA store for the this chain, e.g. google the issuer. (ONLY if you trust that CA)
2. have the server fixed to send the CA as part of the chain
3. trust a cert in the chain
4. disable trust

If the server returned a root CA certificate, then it is not in your CA store, your options are:

1. Add (trust) it
2. disable trust

I have ignored expired / revoked certs because there were no messages indicating it. But you can examine the certs with openssl x509 -text

Given you are connecting to a home edition (https://www.cerberusftp.com/support/help/installing-a-certificate/) ftp server, I am going to say it is self signed.

Please post more details, like the output from openssl.

Answer 9

According to cURL docs you can also pass the certificate to the curl command:

Get a CA certificate that can verify the remote server and use the proper option to point out this CA cert for verification when connecting. For libcurl hackers: curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CAPATH, capath);

With the curl command line tool: --cacert [file]

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For example:

curl --cacert mycertificate.cer -v https://www.stackoverflow.com

Answer 10

I have encountered this problem as well. I've read this thread and most of the answers are informative but overly complex to me. I'm not experienced in networking topics so this answer is for people like me.

In my case, this error was happening because I didn't include the intermediate and root certificates next to the certificate I was using in my application.

Here's what I got from the SSL certificate supplier:

- abc.crt
- abc.pem
- abc-bunde.crt

In the abc.crt file, there was only one certificate:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
/*certificate content here*/
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

If I supplied it in this format, the browser would not show any errors (Firefox) but I would get curl: (60) SSL certificate : unable to get local issuer certificate error when I did the curl request.

To fix this error, check your abc-bunde.crt file. You will most likely see something like this:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
/*additional certificate content here*/
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
/*other certificate content here*/
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
/*different certificate content here*/
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

These are your Intermediate and root certificates. Error is happening because they are missing in the SSL certificate you're supplying to your application.

To fix the error, combine the contents of both of these files in this format:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
/*certificate content here*/
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
/*additional certificate content here*/
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
/*other certificate content here*/
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
/*different certificate content here*/
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Note that there are no spaces between certificates, at the end or at the start of the file. Once you supply this combined certificate to your application, your problem should be fixed.

Answer 11

It might be sufficient to just update the list of certificates

sudo update-ca-certificates -f

update-ca-certificates is a program that updates the directory /etc/ssl/certs to hold SSL certificates and generates ca-certificates.crt, a concatenated single-file list of certificates.

Answer 12

Try reinstalling curl in Ubuntu, and updating my CA certs with sudo update-ca-certificates --fresh which updated the certs

Answer 13

1. Download https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem

2. After download, move this file to your wamp server.

   For exp: D:\wamp\bin\php\

3. Then add the following line to the php.ini file at the bottom.

curl.cainfo="D:\wamp\bin\php\cacert.pem"

4. Now restart your wamp server.

Answer 14

On windows I was having this problem. Curl was installed by mysysgit, so downloading and installing the newest version fixed my issue.

Otherwise these are decent instructions on how to update your CA cert that you could try.

Answer 15

Yes you need to add a CA certificate also. Adding a code snippet in Node.js for clear view.

var fs = require(fs)
var path = require('path')
var https = require('https')
var port = process.env.PORT || 8080;
var app = express();

https.createServer({
key: fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, './path to your private key/privkey.pem')),
cert: fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, './path to your certificate/cert.pem')),
ca: fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, './path to your CA file/chain.pem'))}, app).listen(port)

Answer 16

You have to change server cert from cert.pem to fullchain.pem
I had the same issue with Perl HTTPS Daemon:
I have changed:
SSL_cert_file => '/etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain/cert.pem'
to:
SSL_cert_file => '/etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain/fullchain.pem'

Answer 17

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates

Worked for me.

Answer 18

Enter these two codes to disable the SSL certificate issue. it's worked for me after a lot of research I found this.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

Answer 19

My case was different. I'm hosting a site behind a firewall. The error was caused by pfSense.

Network layout: |Web Server 10.x.x.x| <-> |pfSense 49.x.x.x| <-> |Open Internet|

I accidentally found the cause, thanks to this answer.

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All is well when I accessed my site from WAN.

However, when the site was accessed from inside LAN (e.g. when Wordpress made a curl request to its own server, despite using the WAN IP 49.x.x.x), it was served the pfSense login page.

I identified the certificate as pfSense webConfigurator Self-Signed Certificate. No wonder curl threw an error.

Cause: What happened was that curl was using the site's WAN IP address 49.x.x.x. But, in the context of the web server, the WAN IP was the firewall.

Debug: I found that I was getting the pfSense certificate.

Solution: On the server hosting the site, point its own domain name to 127.0.0.1

By applying the solution, curl's request was properly handled by the web server, and not forwarded to the firewall which responded by sending the login page.

Answer 20

On windows - if you want to run from cmd

> curl -X GET "https://some.place"

Download cacert.pem from https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html

Set permanently the environment variable:

CURL_CA_BUNDLE = C:\somefolder\cacert.pem

And reload the environment by reopening any cmd window in which you want to use curl; if Chocolatey is installed you can use:

refreshenv

Now try again

Reason for the trouble: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/curl-error-60-ssl-certificate-problem-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate/replies/95548

Answer 21

Had that problem and it was not solved with newer version. /etc/certs had the root cert, the browser said everything is fine. After some testing I got from ssllabs.com the warning, that my chain was not complete (Indeed it was the chain for the old certificate and not the new one). After correcting the cert chain everything was fine, even with curl.

Answer 22

This is ssh certificate store issue. You need to download the valid certificate pem file from target CA website, and then build the soft link file to instruct ssl the trusted certifacate.

openssl x509 -hash -noout -in DigiCert_Global_Root_G3.pem

you will get dd8e9d41

build solf link with hash number and suffix the file with a .0 (dot-zero)

dd8e9d41.0

Then try again.

Answer 23

I intended to comment on Yuvik's answer but I lack enough reputation points.

When you import a .crt file to /usr/share/local/ca-certificates, it needs to be in the correct format. Some of these have been mentioned earlier, but no one has mentioned the need for only a new line character, and no one has collected a checklist, so I thought I would provide one while I'm at it.

1. The certificate needs to end in .crt. From Ubuntu's man page:

   Certificates must have a .crt extension in order to be included by update-ca-certificates

2. Certificate files in /usr/local/share/ca-certificates can only contain one certificate

3. Certificate files must end in a newline. update-ca-certificates will appear to work if each row contains, for example, a carriage return + a newline (as is standard in Windows), but once the certificate is appended to /etc/ssl/ca-certificates.crt, it still will not work. This specific requirement bit me as we're loading certificates from an external source.

Answer 24

So far, I've seen this issue happen within corporate networks because of two reasons, one or both of which may be happening in your case:

1. Because of the way network proxies work, they have their own SSL certificates, thereby altering the certificates that curl sees. Many or most enterprise networks force you to use these proxies.
2. Some antivirus programs running on client PCs also act similarly to an HTTPS proxy, so that they can scan your network traffic. Your antivirus program may have an option to disable this function (assuming your administrators will allow it).

As a side note, No. 2 above may make you feel uneasy about your supposedly secure TLS traffic being scanned. That's the corporate world for you.

Answer 25

Specifically for Windows users, using curl-7.57.0-win64-mingw or similar version.

This is a bit late, and the existing answers are correct. But I still had to struggle a bit to get it working on my Windows machine, though the process is actually pretty straight forward. So, sharing the step-by-step process.

This error basically means, curl is failing to verify the certificate of the target URI. If you trust the issuer of the certificate (CA), you can add that to the list of trusted certificates.

For that, browse the URI (e.g. on Chrome) and follow the steps

1. Right click on the secure padlock icon
2. Click on certificate, it'll open a window with the certificate details
3. Go to 'Certification Path' tab
4. Click the ROOT certificate
5. Click View Certificate, it'll open another certificate window
6. Go to Details tab
7. Click Copy to File, it'll open the export wizard
8. Click Next
9. Select 'Base-64 encoded X.509 (.CER)'
10. Click Next
11. Give a friendly name e.g. 'MyDomainX.cer' (browse to desired directory)
12. Click Next
13. Click Finish, it'll save the certificate file
14. Now open this .cer file and copy the contents (including -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and -----END CERTIFICATE-----)
15. Now go to the directory where curl.exe is saved e.g. C:\SomeFolder\curl-7.57.0-win64-mingw\bin
16. Open the curl-ca-bundle.crt file with a text editor
17. Append the copied certificate text to the end of the file. Save

Now your command should execute fine in curl.

Answer 26

I had this problem with Digicert of all CAs. I created a digicertca.pem file that was just both intermediate and root pasted together into one file.

curl https://cacerts.digicert.com/DigiCertGlobalRootCA.crt.pem
curl https://cacerts.digicert.com/DigiCertSHA2SecureServerCA.crt.pem

curl -v https://mydigisite.com/sign_on --cacert DigiCertCA.pem
...
*  subjectAltName: host "mydigisite.com" matched cert's "mydigisite.com"
*  issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; CN=DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
> GET /users/sign_in HTTP/1.1
> Host: mydigisite.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.65.1
> Accept: */*
...

Eorekan had the answer but only got myself and one other to up vote his answer.

Answer 27

this can help you for guzzle :

$client = new Client(env('API_HOST'));
$client->setSslVerification(false);

tested on guzzle/guzzle 3.*

Answer 28

Simple solution: IN ~/.sdkman/etc/config, change sdkman_insecure_ssl=true

Steps:
nano ~/.sdkman/etc/config
change sdkman_insecure_ssl=false to sdkman_insecure_ssl=true
save and exit