Issue #8125 has been updated by Nigel Kersten.

Status changed from Needs Decision to Accepted
Assignee deleted (Nigel Kersten)
Priority changed from Normal to High
Target version set to 2.7.x


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Bug #8125: puppetca finds wrong crl source file
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8125

Author: Michael Komitee
Status: Accepted
Priority: High
Assignee: 
Category: SSL
Target version: 2.7.x
Affected Puppet version: 2.6.5
Keywords: puppetca crl CRL
Branch: 


It appears that puppetca, when revoking a certificate, defaults to the crl file 
as defined in the :hostcrl configuration parameter instead of the :cacrl 
configuration parameter, but only when reading the crl file into memory. When 
writing it, it writes it to the location as specified in :cacrl.

The end result is that it reads $ssldir/crl.pem into memory, revokes the given 
serial in memory, and then writes the results to $cadir/ca_crl.pem. 

If you have a fan-out strategy for puppetmasters, where host1 is the 
puppetmaster for host2, and host2 is the puppetmaster for host3, and you revoke 
a certificate in the puppetca running on host2, host3 will end up with a crl 
with an issuer of host1, which will cause openssl errors when host3 tries to 
connect to host1.

It appears that in one of the various layers of indirection, we end up with a 
Puppet::SSL::CertificateRevocationList::File instead of a 
Puppet::SSL::CertificateRevocationList::Ca.

We've worked around this by setting hostcrl to $cadir/ca_crl.pem in the 
[master] section of host2's puppet.conf.


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