Hi Developers:
In @plugins/sslutils.c:164~248, I see you get the certificate and verify
some properties of it.So plugin is planning to do so? Why not use the
judgement :SSL_get_verify_result(ssl)==X509_V_OK to guarantee valid cert
verification?
2017-04-06 17:16 GMT+08:00 Jan Wagner <[email protected]>:
> check_http (and every other plugin) does NOT verify certificates and was
> never planed to do so.
>
> ** Changed in: monitoring-plugins (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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> Title:
> incomplete SSL certificate verify
>
> Status in monitoring-plugins package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Hi developers:
> We made a large scale security static analysis on several open
> source projects, and found some mistakes in monitoring-plugins-2.1.2. In
> the @plugins/sslutils.c:164:
> int np_net_ssl_check_cert(int days_till_exp_warn, int
> days_till_exp_crit){
> # ifdef USE_OPENSSL
> [...]
> certificate=SSL_get_peer_certificate(s);
>
> if (!certificate) {
> printf("%s\n",_("CRITICAL - Cannot retrieve server
> certificate."));
> return STATE_CRITICAL;
> }
>
> /* Extract CN from certificate subject */
> subj=X509_get_subject_name(certificate);
> [...]
> }
>
> We find that you use SSL_get_peer_certificate() to get the cert
> and verify some properties of it.But it still not secure enough and
> can lead to MITM attack. To guarantee the security,we recommand you
> add the judgement if(SSL_get_verify_result(ssl)==X509_V_OK) to make
> sure validation succeeds.
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