denozord/strongswan-ext
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

addrblock: Allow limiting validation depth of issuer addrblock extensions

Browse Source 
RFC3779 requires to validate the addrblocks of issuer certificates strictly,
that is, they must contain the extension and the claimed addrblock, up to
the root CA.

When working with third party root CAs that do not have the extension,
this makes using the plugin impossible. So add a depth setting that limits
the number of issuer certificates to check bottom-up towards the root CA.
A depth value of 0 disables any issuer check, the default value of -1
checks all issuers in the chain, keeping the existing behavior.

Closes strongswan/strongswan#860
This commit is contained in:
Martin Willi
2022-01-24 17:32:06 +01:00
committed by Tobias Brunner
parent 1bb05006d3
commit e3d1766aff
2 changed files with 32 additions and 2 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files
conf/plugins/addrblock.opt
+14
View File
@@ -6,3 +6,17 @@ charon.plugins.addrblock.strict = yes
to no, subject certificates issued without the addrblock extension are
accepted without any traffic selector checks and no policy is enforced
by the plugin.
charon.plugins.addrblock.depth = -1
How deep towards the root CA to validate issuer cert addrblock extensions.
RFC3779 requires that all addrblocks claimed by a certificate must be
contained in the addrblock extension of the issuer certificate, up to
the root CA. The default depth setting of -1 enforces this.
In practice, third party (root) CAs may not contain the extension, making
the addrblock extension unusable under such CAs. By limiting the validation
depth, only a certain level of issuer certificates are validated for proper
addrblock extensions: A depth of 0 does not check any issuer certificate
extensions, a depth of 1 only the direct issuer of the end entity
certificate is checkend, and so on.