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Alex White
Brainiac
April 18, 2025

ZXPSignCmd sign process is broken (segmentation fault)

  • April 18, 2025
  • 36 replies
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Looks like the ZXP sign process is broken both on macOS and Windows.
  • macOS: Signing process ends with: [1] 21894 segmentation fault ./ZXPSignCmd -sign mypassword -tsa
  • Window: just fails with no error
 
  1. Command that fails:  ./ZXPSignCmd -sign "/Users/admin/Desktop/extension/dist/cep" "/Users/admin/Desktop/extension/dist/zxp/com.my.extension.cep.zxp" "/Users/admin/Desktop/extension/lib/.tmp/com.my.extension.cep-cert.p12" mypassword -tsa http://timestamp.digicert.com/
  2. None of the environments nor macOS nor Windows has changed. It just worked yesterday and today it's not.
  3. ZXPSignCmd has proper executable rights
  4. Tried changing timestamp servers
  5. Tried using different network connection
  6. Verified with different repos/tools
  7. Tested on ARM/x64 macOS, ARM/x64 Windows. All fail to sign
  8. Confirmed the same behavior by many devs

36 replies

Ivan Stepanov
Brainiac
April 21, 2025

For me everything works. I switched to http://timestamp.apple.com/ts01 long time ago.

System: macOS ARM.

I use this version of ZXPSign.

Result file has .zip extension, but tested .zxp and it works as well.

 

Command:

./ZXPSignCmd-64bit -sign "/path/to/extension" "/path/to/extension.zip" "path/to/certificate.p12" mypassword -tsa http://timestamp.apple.com/ts01

 

Inspiring
April 20, 2025

Confirming... still broken here too for the last few days.

Softmatic GmbH
New Participant
April 20, 2025

Any news on this? We are having the same issue, signing works but only without timestamp. We are using a self-signed cert which expires in 2034. As far as I understand, it should be safe to omit the timestamp when the expiry is so far out. Can anyone confirm this?

New Participant
April 19, 2025

I am experiencing the same issue and can't patch a bug since I can't sign an updated version of my extension. 

Inspiring
April 18, 2025

I am seeing exactly the same thing, looks like some Adobe service is not functioning correctly. A timely fix would be extremely welcome, because there is no alternative to ZXP Sign for distribution. 

Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew
Community Expert
April 18, 2025

Also seeing ZXP failures on all of our Windows and Macs both Intel and ARM, even with testing various TSAs, primarily DigiCert. Panels were building fine yesterday.

 

It doesn't seem that the executable cert has expired so I'm guessing some other internal mechanism is phoning home to some site that is down or using another verication that has expired or no longer works.

 

A timely fix is crucial for extension developers across Adobe apps to continue to update and publish new versions of their tools.

 

Additionally, long-term open sourcing ZXPSignCmd would be a smart choice so developers could temporarily patch issues like this on their own while waiting for offical fixes from Adobe.

 

Thanks for your help