Issue #15561 has been updated by Jason Hancock.

It doesn't work in 2.7.x because I believe submitting reports to an SSL enabled 
reporturl wasn't supported until Puppet 3.0.  

I haven't done any special configuration for the certificate on the 
puppetmaster as the http report processor documentation 
(http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/report.html#http) didn't specify 
that I had to do any sort of configuration on the master aside from setting the 
reporturl. I simply purchased the cert from Namecheap and configured apache on 
my webserver that is receiving the reports to use it.

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Bug #15561: Fix for CVE-2012-3867 is too restrictive
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15561#change-87818

* Author: Dustin Mitchell
* Status: Merged - Pending Release
* Priority: Urgent
* Assignee: 
* Category: SSL
* Target version: 3.2.0
* Affected Puppet version: 2.7.18
* Keywords: certificate
* Branch: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/1556
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The fix for CVE-2012-3867 involves checking certificate subjects for "weird" 
characters.  From my read of the CVE entry, this is to filter out characters 
that would cause the name to display in a manner visually indistinguishable 
from a valid hostname.

However, the check is too restrictive:

Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Certname "puppetagain base 
ca/[email protected]/ou=release engineering/o=mozilla, inc." 
must not contain unprintable or non-ASCII characters

In particular, / is a very common character in subjects, and should be allowed. 
 Puppet is seeing this subject on my base CA - I'm using certificate chaining.

The fix is one character, so I haven't included a patch, but I'm happy to make 
a pull req if necessary.

Another fix would be to only verify certificate subjects for the leaf 
certificate, and not any of the certs in its signing chain, but that seems less 
secure.

It's also worth noting that the regex is overly broad, since it downcases the 
string, then accepts A-Z among other characters.


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