What does HRESULT 0x800C000E (INET_E_SECURITY_PROBLEM) mean?

 
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INET_E_SECURITY_PROBLEM

INET_E_SECURITY_PROBLEM is a URL Moniker HRESULT. It means that the URL Moniker operation was blocked or failed because of a security condition. Certificate validation, security zones, policy, authentication, origin restrictions or unsafe content handling can be involved.

What to check for INET_E_SECURITY_PROBLEM

  • Collect the specific security diagnostics, target URL and policy context without logging secrets.
  • Verify certificate trust, redirect destination, content origin and user or machine policy.
  • Fix the security condition instead of disabling checks or bypassing restrictions globally.

Microsoft documentation

Diagnostic interpretation

This result has the HRESULT value 0x800C000E. AllStat records the condition as “A security problem occurred.”.

Evidence to capture

  • Capture any IErrorInfo text, activity identifier, event-log entry, and subsystem trace that mentions this result or the inet / security / problem operation.
  • compare the failing machine with a working one at the same configuration boundary: component version, policy, registration, identity, and target resource.

Retry and recovery

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