What does HRESULT 0x803D0023 (WS_E_SECURITY_SYSTEM_FAILURE) mean?

 
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WS_E_SECURITY_SYSTEM_FAILURE

WS_E_SECURITY_SYSTEM_FAILURE is a Windows Web Services API HRESULT. It means that an operation in a security platform component used by the Windows Web Services framework failed.

What to check for WS_E_SECURITY_SYSTEM_FAILURE

  • Inspect the extended error object and Windows security or certificate diagnostics for the underlying failure.
  • Verify certificates, private-key access, trust stores, crypto provider availability and service identity.
  • Correct the specific security-platform problem rather than disabling the framework security feature.

Microsoft documentation

Diagnostic interpretation

This result has the HRESULT value 0x803D0023. AllStat records the condition as “A security operation failed in the Windows Web Services framework.”.

Evidence to capture

  • Capture any IErrorInfo text, activity identifier, event-log entry, and subsystem trace that mentions this result or the ws / security / system operation.
  • check the documented return contract of the specific API because the same HRESULT can require different recovery in different interfaces.

Retry and recovery

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