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Bug #12737

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CA path is not defined when using ``curl`` in the shell

Added by Danilo Zrenjanin about 2 years ago. Updated over 1 year ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Jim Pingle
Category:
Certificates
Target version:
2.7.0
Start date:
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Plus Target Version:
23.01
Release Notes:
Default
Affected Version:
2.5.2
Affected Architecture:

Description

When executing the curl command from the pfSense, CApath is not defined by default.

[2.5.2-RELEASE][admin@xxxx]/root: curl -v https://sede.mites.gob.es
*   Trying 192.148.211.13:443...
* Connected to sede.mites.gob.es (192.148.211.13) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*  CAfile: /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt
*  CApath: none

Related issues

Related to Feature #13367: Specify CA trust store location when downloading and validating URL alias contentResolvedMarcos M

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 #1

Updated by Viktor Gurov about 2 years ago

This is why curl ignores Trust Store CA (/etc/ssl/certs)

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 #2

Updated by Jim Pingle about 2 years ago

  • Category changed from Unknown to Certificates
  • Target version changed from 2.6.0 to 2.7.0
  • Plus Target Version changed from 22.01 to 22.05
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 #3

Updated by Marcos M almost 2 years ago

For reference, the cert store can be specified:

curl -vso /dev/null --cacert /etc/ssl/certs/a734448e.0 --connect-timeout 5 https://lanhost.lab.arpa --resolve 'lanhost.lab.arpa:443:172.19.5.100'

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 #4

Updated by Jim Pingle almost 2 years ago

  • Plus Target Version changed from 22.05 to 22.09
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 #5

Updated by Jim Pingle almost 2 years ago

  • Plus Target Version changed from 22.09 to 22.11
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 #6

Updated by Djerk Geurts almost 2 years ago

Same issue here, curl doesn't use the trust store and it seems neither does pfBlockerNG. Seems a bit laughable that if you have a corporate CA, you can't verify internal certificates on the firewall. Turning SSL off is obviously easy, but not the right choice.

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Updated by Marcos M almost 2 years ago

Djerk Geurts wrote in #note-6:

Same issue here, curl doesn't use the trust store and it seems neither does pfBlockerNG. Seems a bit laughable that if you have a corporate CA, you can't verify internal certificates on the firewall. Turning SSL off is obviously easy, but not the right choice.

There's no real good way I've found to change the trust store to some directory. This particular issue with pfBlockerNG/aliases is a related but separate issue.

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 #8

Updated by Marcos M almost 2 years ago

  • Related to Feature #13367: Specify CA trust store location when downloading and validating URL alias content added
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 #9

Updated by Jim Pingle over 1 year ago

  • Plus Target Version changed from 22.11 to 23.01
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 #10

Updated by Jim Pingle over 1 year ago

  • Assignee set to Jim Pingle

Seems like we should be able to define our CA path in the environment to cover some of these cases:

From the man page for curl:

SSL_CERT_DIR <dir>
If set, will be used as the --capath value.

See similar setup we have for proxy and so on in source:src/etc/skel/dot.shrc and source:src/etc/skel/dot.tcshrc

We should be able to set SSL_CERT_DIR=/etc/ssl/certs/ to pick up and custom globally trusted CA entries.

: env SSL_CERT_DIR=/etc/ssl/certs/ curl -v https://www.netgate.com
[...]
* Connected to www.netgate.com (199.60.103.30) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN: offers h2
* ALPN: offers http/1.1
*  CAfile: /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt
*  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs/
[...]

That wouldn't have any bearing on cURL calls made within PHP, those would need to be changed individually.

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 #11

Updated by Jim Pingle over 1 year ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
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 #12

Updated by Jim Pingle over 1 year ago

Defining it in the environment in the shell init scripts works for me. Commit inbound shortly.

With the CA for a web server imported but not marked as globally trusted:

: curl https://my.test.host
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain
More details here: https://curl.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not
establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and
how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above.

Mark the imported CA for that web server as globally trusted and try again:

: curl https://my.test.host
:
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 #13

Updated by Jim Pingle over 1 year ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Feedback
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
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 #14

Updated by Jim Pingle over 1 year ago

  • Subject changed from CApath is not defined by default in curl to CA path is not defined when using ``curl`` in the shell

Updating subject for release notes.

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 #15

Updated by Jim Pingle over 1 year ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Resolved

Working as expected. Mark a CA as trusted and cURL in a shell prompt can connect to a server with a cert signed by that CA with validation enabled. Remove it from the trust store and the same request fails.

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