curl fails with - "NSS error -12173" on attempting to connect to a https URL

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Issue

  • Curl fails with the below output
$  curl -k -v https://example.url.com:22233
* About to connect() to example.url.com port 22233 (#0)
*   Trying 10.0.0.5... connected
* Connected to example.url.com (10.0.0.5) port 22233 (#0)
* Initializing NSS with certpath: sql:/etc/pki/nssdb
* warning: ignoring value of ssl.verifyhost
* skipping SSL peer certificate verification
* NSS error -12173
* Closing connection #0
* SSL connect error
curl: (35) SSL connect error

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4

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