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CLI login fails with an Error to make a request message

See original GitHub issue

[REQUIRED] Environment info

firebase-tools: 11.0.1

Platform: macOS {11.6.1 (20G224)}

[REQUIRED] Test case

Download firebase-tools or firebase-cli and authenticate from the terminal (Alacritty, default MacOS terminal, ZSH shell)

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

Download Firebase-tools or Firebase-cli package from either npm or brew.sh respectively;
Execute firebase login, firebase login --reauth, firebase login --no-localhost and basically all versions of authentication available. Including ones with login:ci

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

CLI tool authenticates

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

The following is the output of firebase login --debug

~ ❯ firebase login --debug
i  Firebase optionally collects CLI usage and error reporting information to help improve our products. Data is collected in accordance with Google's privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and is not used to identify you.

? Allow Firebase to collect CLI usage and error reporting information? (Y/n) [2022-05-27T11:25:42.298Z] FetchError: request to https://firebase-public.firebaseio.com/cli.json failed, reason: unable to get local issuer certificate
    at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/usr/local/Cellar/firebase-cli/11.0.1/libexec/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1491:11)
    at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:390:28)
    at ClientRequest.emit (node:domain:475:12)
    at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:442:9)
    at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:390:28)
    at TLSSocket.emit (node:domain:475:12)
    at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:164:8)
    at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:129:3)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)

Error: Failed to make request to https://firebase-public.firebaseio.com/cli.json
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