Unable to access any HTTPS site with any Java JRE on Windows 10

Asked Oct 12 '19 at 11:08

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I am on Windows 10 18362.356.

After some system update, now it is impossible to access any TLS-enabled site with Java. Both standanlone JRE (jre1.8.0_221) and the JRE bundled in Android Studio 3.5.1 fails with:

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException:
sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: 
sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: 
unable to find valid certification path to requested target

At first I thought that the cacerts file was faulty, but even after replacing them, the problem persists.

Wireshark shows that there is no problem with handshake and they are not blocked by firewall. Screenshot of Wireshark

Manually add certs is not effective (and not possible as none of the sites work)

JAVA_HOME is pointing to the correct JRE directory.

asked Oct 12 '19 at 11:08

Midori Kochiya

“After some system update“ - Please specify the update. – Security Hound Oct 12 '19 at 16:30
I really can not specify the update as I rarely use Android Studio recently. I am sure that it works correctly in August – Midori Kochiya Oct 13 '19 at 03:39
So it worked 2 months ago? What updates have you recently installed? – Security Hound Oct 13 '19 at 03:52

Unable to access any HTTPS site with any Java JRE on Windows 10

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