[PATCH uclient 11/12] uclient-fetch: wolfSSL: fix certificate validation

Petr Štetiar ynezz at true.cz
Thu Dec 10 10:47:58 EST 2020


Currently wolfSSL doesn't validate any certificates, quoting from
README:

 wolfSSL takes a different approach to certificate verification than
 OpenSSL does. The default policy for the client is to verify the server,
 this means that if you don't load CAs to verify the server you'll get a
 connect error, no signer error to confirm failure (-188).

 If you want to mimic OpenSSL behavior of having SSL_connect succeed even if
 verifying the server fails and reducing security you can do this by calling:

 wolfSSL_CTX_set_verify(ctx, SSL_VERIFY_NONE, 0);

 before calling wolfSSL_new();. Though it's not recommended.

wolfSSL simply behaves differently then OpenSSL so once you set
SSL_VERIFY_NONE wolfSSL doesn't care about the certificates anymore so
every call to SSL_get_verify_result() is going to succeed (returns
X509_V_OK) even for invalid certificates and current OpenSSL based post
connection verification logic thus doesn't work.

So in order to get the validation working we need to use SSL_VERIFY_PEER
for wolfSSL by default and allow disabling it explicitly by new
`context_set_require_validation()` call.

Fixes: FS#3465
Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz>
---
 uclient-fetch.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/uclient-fetch.c b/uclient-fetch.c
index bbf5eec58d71..958f75618194 100644
--- a/uclient-fetch.c
+++ b/uclient-fetch.c
@@ -591,6 +591,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 			switch (longopt_idx) {
 			case L_NO_CHECK_CERTIFICATE:
 				verify = false;
+				if (ssl_ctx)
+					ssl_ops->context_set_require_validation(ssl_ctx, verify);
 				break;
 			case L_CA_CERTIFICATE:
 				has_cert = true;



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