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Heroku login -- unable to verify the first certificate

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Shows how to fix heroku login -- unable to verify the first certificate. Use it when you hit this exact problem. Skip it when your error message or symptom looks different.

When it applies

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Instructions

TL;DR

Please give me a hand and fix this issue. If heroku login fails on Windows with UNABLETOVERIFYLEAFSIGNATURE, check for ESET antivirus: its SSL protection produces an invalid certificate chain for Node apps.

Steps

  1. If heroku login fails on Windows with UNABLETOVERIFYLEAFSIGNATURE, check for ESET antivirus: its SSL protection produces an invalid certificate chain for Node apps. The reporter fixed it by uninstalling ESET; milder workarounds discussed in the thread are the ESET settings changes linked there, or running the commands inside WSL.

When to use

You are seeing this: Issue heroku/cli#2819 (closed, 12 comments): What is the current behavior? Use this skill when you run into "Heroku login -- unable to verify the first certificate".

When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

Versions

Versions mentioned in the source: heroku 8.10.0, node- v16.20.2. If you are on something much newer or older, the details may have shifted.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

Sources

  • https://github.com/heroku/cli/issues/2819

Evidence

In gh:heroku/cli#2819, the reporter ran into: Issue heroku/cli#2819 (closed, 12 comments): What is the current behavior?

I got the following error and code after using "heroku login" command.

Error: unable to verify the first certificate Code: UNABLETOVERIFYLEAFSIGNATURE

What is the expected behavior? Heroku version: heroku/8.10.0 win32-x64 node-v16.20.2 OS: Windows 11

I have deployed my applications by heroku cli command. So it is the first step to login heroku platform. Please give me a hand and fix this issue. Thanks for your trouble. The verified answer was: If heroku login fails on Windows with UNABLETOVERIFYLEAFSIGNATURE, check for ESET antivirus: its SSL protection produces an invalid certificate chain for Node apps. The reporter fixed it by uninstalling ESET; milder workarounds discussed in the thread are the ESET settings changes linked there, or running the commands inside WSL. Source issue: https://github.com/heroku/cli/issues/2819

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