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Escape forward slashes in certificate Subject names when used as user quota id strings #1059

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@robstradling robstradling commented Apr 21, 2023

add-chain requests to Sectigo's Dodo log are failing for leaf certificates issued by certain Actalis CAs, with errors of this form:
AddChain handler error: backend QueueLeaves request failed: rpc error: code = ResourceExhausted desc = quota exhausted: invalid name: "quotas/users/@intermediate CN=Actalis Authentication Root CA,O=Actalis S.p.A./03358520967,L=Milan,C=IT 25d4913cf5/write/config"
Note the forward slash character in the "O" field ("Actalis S.p.A./03358520967").

Example certs: https://crt.sh/?id=9077408990, https://crt.sh/?id=9077429351

IINM, these errors are occurring because the string form of the issuer certificate's Subject name is matched against a regex that allows any character except the forward slash character.

To resolve this issue, this PR simply escapes (to "%2F") any forward slash character in the Subject name.

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@robstradling robstradling changed the title Escape forward slashes in user quota id strings Escape forward slashes in certificate Subject names when used as user quota id strings Apr 21, 2023
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@defacto64 FYI.

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Hi Rob, this seems like a good idea.

Is the PR in draft because you're waiting for some other input?

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/gcbrun

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Is the PR in draft because you're waiting for some other input?

It's just 'cos I haven't actually tested it yet. I'm trying to persuade our Ops team to deploy this change to our Dodo log so that I can do that.

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Hi Rob,

I acknowledge receipt, but I don't know what else to say.

I'm sorry that the peculiarity of that certificate has caused annoyance to Sectigo's Dodo log , however that certificate has been around for a very long time (since 2011) and in all this time it has never created problems for anyone, nor has any root store ever had anything to say on that certificate (and we are trusted in all platforms).

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@defacto64 No need to apologise, Adriano! There's nothing wrong with that certificate. I just thought you might find it useful to be aware of this bug with Trillian-based logs, since the bug seems to prevent the acceptance (by the logs) of certificates issued by that Actalis CA.

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I'm also seeing this same problem with Dodo (and Sabre) and leaf certificates issued by a fairly high-volume GoDaddy Sub-CA (https://crt.sh/?caid=904), due to forward-slash characters in the Issuer OU field. This example precert - https://crt.sh/?id=9393888385 - that expires in 2024 has been accepted by several other Trillian-based logs (Argon, Nimbus, Yeti).

Any idea why these other logs are seemingly unaffected by this bug? Is it because they've disabled quotas?

(Whatever the reason, I can see now why @defacto64 hadn't previously seen any issues).

@robstradling robstradling force-pushed the escape_slashes_in_quota_id_strings branch from 72d67ef to 98a9180 Compare May 17, 2023 16:29
@robstradling robstradling force-pushed the escape_slashes_in_quota_id_strings branch from 3d29e2a to f376497 Compare June 9, 2023 15:48
@robstradling robstradling marked this pull request as ready for review June 9, 2023 15:56
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Today we've deployed the fix in this PR to our Dodo log. I just submitted both of the certs mentioned in #1059 (comment), and this time both submissions were successful. :-)

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Cloud Build failed. Any idea why? I suspect it's unrelated to the proposed changes in this PR.

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roger2hk commented Jun 9, 2023

Cloud Build failed. Any idea why? I suspect it's unrelated to the proposed changes in this PR.

The cloud build check has passed after re-run.

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We've also deployed the fix in this PR to our Sabre log.

@AlCutter AlCutter merged commit 88a932b into google:master Jun 12, 2023
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Thanks, @robstradling!

@robstradling robstradling deleted the escape_slashes_in_quota_id_strings branch June 12, 2023 10:50
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