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Outage in Buildkite

Buildkite response to the eMudhra certificate compromise

Resolved Minor
October 20, 2026 - Started 5 days ago - Lasted 1 day
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Summary AI Generated

Eight eMudhra certificate authority private keys were compromised, posing a risk of fraudulent HTTPS certificate acceptance across Buildkite services and customer-deployed components. Over approximately 24 hours, Buildkite updated all hosted services to distrust the affected certificates and released patched versions of the Agent (v4.7.0/v3.138.2), CLI (v3.64.2), bktec (v3.3.1), elastic-ci-stack-for-aws (v7.8.0), and agent-stack-k8s (v0.52.0). No customer action is required for hosted services, but customers running Buildkite components in their own infrastructure are advised to upgrade to the listed versions.

The private keys for eight certificates issued by eMudhra, an external certificate authority, have been compromised. Software that still trusts these certificates may accept fraudulent HTTPS certificates. We’re updating the services that power Buildkite and preparing new CLI and Agent releases, which we expect to ship shortly. We’re also tracking fixes to the libraries and trust stores we depend on and will apply them as they become available. We’ll update this page with the new versions and any action customers need to take. Mozilla has published background on the compromise.

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RESOLVED 4 days ago - at 10/21/2026 10:38PM

All services that power Buildkite have been updated to distrust the affected certificates, and updated releases are available for the components we distribute that run in customer infrastructure:

Buildkite agent: v4.7.0 and v3.138.2
Buildkite CLI: v3.64.2
bktec: v3.3.1
elastic-ci-stack-for-aws: v7.8.0
agent-stack-k8s: v0.52.0

We recommend updating to these versions to prevent exposure to the affected certificate providers.

MONITORING 5 days ago - at 10/21/2026 05:07AM

We’ve finished updating the services that power Buildkite so they no longer trust the affected eMudhra certificates. No action is needed from customers for Buildkite hosted services.

For components that run in customer infrastructure, we still recommend upgrading to the releases listed in our previous update (Buildkite agent v4.7.0 / v3.138.2, Buildkite CLI v3.64.2, and bktec v3.3.1). We’re continuing to release updates for the other binaries we distribute and will post them here as they ship.

MONITORING 5 days ago - at 10/20/2026 11:25PM

We're continuing to monitor the situation, and are making releases to many of our components that run in customer infrastructure. At time of writing, we've released versions that distrust the affected eMudhra certificates for:
- Buildkite agent: https://github.com/buildkite/agent:
- v4.7.0: https://github.com/buildkite/agent/releases/tag/v4.7.0
- v3.138.2: https://github.com/buildkite/agent/releases/tag/v3.138.2
- Buildkite CLI: https://github.com/buildkite/cli/releases/tag/v3.64.2
- bktec: https://github.com/buildkite/test-engine-client/releases/tag/v3.3.1

We recommend updating to these versions to prevent exposure to the affected certificate providers. We will continue to issue updates for the other binaries we distribute, and are updating any internal services that are affected.

INVESTIGATING 5 days ago - at 10/20/2026 10:13PM

The private keys for eight certificates issued by eMudhra, an external certificate authority, have been compromised. Software that still trusts these certificates may accept fraudulent HTTPS certificates.

We’re updating the services that power Buildkite and preparing new CLI and Agent releases, which we expect to ship shortly. We’re also tracking fixes to the libraries and trust stores we depend on and will apply them as they become available.

We’ll update this page with the new versions and any action customers need to take. Mozilla has published background on the compromise.

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