diff --git a/src/SASViyaApiClient.ts b/src/SASViyaApiClient.ts
index b336b47..643bf74 100644
--- a/src/SASViyaApiClient.ts
+++ b/src/SASViyaApiClient.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@ import {
   JobDefinition,
   PollOptions
 } from './types'
-import { JobExecutionError, RootFolderNotFoundError } from './types/errors'
+import {
+  CertificateError,
+  JobExecutionError,
+  RootFolderNotFoundError
+} from './types/errors'
 import { SessionManager } from './SessionManager'
 import { ContextManager } from './ContextManager'
 import { SasAuthResponse, MacroVar, AuthConfig } from '@sasjs/utils/types'
@@ -878,7 +882,8 @@ export class SASViyaApiClient {
 
     const { result: folder } = await this.requestClient
       .get<Folder>(`${this.serverUrl}${url}`, accessToken)
-      .catch(() => {
+      .catch((err) => {
+        if (err instanceof CertificateError) throw err
         return { result: null }
       })
 
@@ -899,7 +904,8 @@ export class SASViyaApiClient {
 
     const { result: folder } = await this.requestClient
       .get<Folder>(`${this.serverUrl}${url}`, accessToken)
-      .catch(() => {
+      .catch((err) => {
+        if (err instanceof CertificateError) throw err
         return { result: null }
       })
 
diff --git a/src/auth/getAccessTokenForViya.ts b/src/auth/getAccessTokenForViya.ts
index dd4993d..508c767 100644
--- a/src/auth/getAccessTokenForViya.ts
+++ b/src/auth/getAccessTokenForViya.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { SasAuthResponse } from '@sasjs/utils/types'
 import { prefixMessage } from '@sasjs/utils/error'
 import { RequestClient } from '../request/RequestClient'
+import { CertificateError } from '../types/errors'
 
 /**
  * Exchanges the auth code for an access token for the given client.
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ export async function getAccessTokenForViya(
     .post(url, data, undefined, 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', headers)
     .then((res) => res.result as SasAuthResponse)
     .catch((err) => {
+      if (err instanceof CertificateError) throw err
       throw prefixMessage(err, 'Error while getting access token. ')
     })
 
diff --git a/src/request/RequestClient.ts b/src/request/RequestClient.ts
index 04ac98d..87bcee1 100644
--- a/src/request/RequestClient.ts
+++ b/src/request/RequestClient.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ import {
   LoginRequiredError,
   NotFoundError,
   InternalServerError,
-  JobExecutionError
+  JobExecutionError,
+  CertificateError
 } from '../types/errors'
 import { SASjsRequest } from '../types'
 import { parseWeboutResponse } from '../utils/parseWeboutResponse'
@@ -517,6 +518,10 @@ export class RequestClient implements HttpClient {
       else return
     }
 
+    if (e.isAxiosError && e.code === 'UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE') {
+      throw new CertificateError(e.message)
+    }
+
     if (e.message) throw e
     else throw prefixMessage(e, 'Error while handling error. ')
   }
diff --git a/src/types/errors/CertificateError.ts b/src/types/errors/CertificateError.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ef08278
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/types/errors/CertificateError.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+const instructionsToFix =
+  'https://github.com/sasjs/cli/issues/1181#issuecomment-1090638584'
+
+export class CertificateError extends Error {
+  constructor(message: string) {
+    super(
+      `Error: ${message}\nPlease visit below link to resolve this issue:\n- ${instructionsToFix}\n`
+    )
+    this.name = 'CertificateError'
+    Object.setPrototypeOf(this, CertificateError.prototype)
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/types/errors/index.ts b/src/types/errors/index.ts
index e2b0766..7bd386b 100644
--- a/src/types/errors/index.ts
+++ b/src/types/errors/index.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 export * from './AuthorizeError'
+export * from './CertificateError'
 export * from './ComputeJobExecutionError'
+export * from './ErrorResponse'
 export * from './InternalServerError'
+export * from './InvalidJsonError'
 export * from './JobExecutionError'
 export * from './JobStatePollError'
-export * from './LoginRequiredError'
-export * from './NotFoundError'
-export * from './ErrorResponse'
-export * from './NoSessionStateError'
-export * from './RootFolderNotFoundError'
 export * from './JsonParseArrayError'
+export * from './LoginRequiredError'
+export * from './NoSessionStateError'
+export * from './NotFoundError'
+export * from './RootFolderNotFoundError'
 export * from './WeboutResponseError'
-export * from './InvalidJsonError'