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SslContextFactory may select a wildcard certificate during SNI selection when a more specific SSL certificate is present #6034

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BruceMacD opened this issue Mar 4, 2021 · 3 comments · Fixed by #6036

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@BruceMacD
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Jetty version
Observed in jetty-9.4.35.v20201120 but the code is the same in the jetty-9.4.x branch and the jetty-10.0.x branch so it should have the same behavior.

Java version
Oracle JDK 8u281.

OS type/version
Mac OS 10.14 (this should be OS agnostic)

Description
Scenario
Hosting an application in Jetty with two certificates:

  • Certificate 1 with alias *.example.com
  • Certificate 2 with alias sub.example.com

Expected behavior
A request to sub.example.com selects certificate 2 (sub.example.com).

Actual behavior
A request to sub.example.com may select certificate 1 (*.example.com).

Details
This happens because SslContextFactory.sniSelect() returns the first certificate that matches the SNI host. If the wildcard cert happens to be stored first in the collection it will be returned with this behavior. I notice that X509.matches() checks wilds as well as hosts for a match, if there was a specific host match check in the SslContext factory before doing the more general match check then this behavior would be fixed.

This may be expected behavior, but it would be pretty simple to correct so I thought it was worth mentioning.

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sbordet commented Mar 4, 2021

@BruceMacD as a workaround, you can always set your own SNISelector on SslContextFactory to implement a more precise logic.

I agree that we should try to match the precise domain first, then wildcard domains.

sbordet added a commit that referenced this issue Mar 4, 2021
…ing SNI selection when a more specific SSL certificate is present.

Now matching certificates are sorted, non-wildcard first, so that a more specific alias is returned.

Signed-off-by: Simone Bordet <simone.bordet@gmail.com>
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sbordet commented Mar 4, 2021

@BruceMacD can you try #6036?

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@sbordet
That change works perfectly in my case. Thanks.

@sbordet sbordet closed this as completed in 8de7b83 Mar 8, 2021
sbordet added a commit that referenced this issue Mar 8, 2021
…ing SNI selection when a more specific SSL certificate is present.

Now matching certificates are sorted, non-wildcard first, so that a more specific alias is returned.

Signed-off-by: Simone Bordet <simone.bordet@gmail.com>
sbordet added a commit that referenced this issue Mar 9, 2021
…ing SNI selection when a more specific SSL certificate is present.

Now matching certificates are sorted, non-wildcard first, so that a more specific alias is returned.

Signed-off-by: Simone Bordet <simone.bordet@gmail.com>
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