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Bug #50713 openssl_pkcs7_verify() may ignore untrusted CAs
Submitted: 2010-01-10 11:52 UTC Modified: 2021-06-01 10:55 UTC
Votes:5
Avg. Score:4.4 ± 0.8
Reproduced:4 of 5 (80.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:0 (0.0%)
From: dark-tranquillity at yandex dot ru Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: OpenSSL related
PHP Version: 7.4 OS: Win32
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2010-01-10 11:52 UTC] dark-tranquillity at yandex dot ru 
Description:
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I have a private key & self-signed certificate.
1) create a signature (openssl_pkcs7_sign)

2) verify the signature: function openssl_pkcs7_verify returns TRUE (Verification successful),
   but openssl_error_string() - returns an error message (error:2107C080:PKCS7 routines:PKCS7_get0_signers:signer certificate not found)

3) in the command line are no errors
   openssl smime -sign -nocerts -signer proc.crt -inkey proc.key -in in.txt -out signed.txt
   openssl smime -verify -noverify -nointern -nochain -in signed.txt -certfile proc.crt


Reproduce code:
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<?
    file_put_contents("in.txt", "demo text");

    $certfname='./proc.crt'; 
    $crt      =file_get_contents($certfname);
    $priv_key =file_get_contents('./proc.key');

    if(openssl_pkcs7_sign("in.txt", "signed.txt", $crt, $priv_key, array(), PKCS7_NOCERTS))
    {
       $status=openssl_pkcs7_verify("signed.txt", PKCS7_NOVERIFY|PKCS7_NOINTERN|PKCS7_NOCHAIN, "1.tmp", array(), $certfname);
       while($msg=openssl_error_string()) echo "$msg\n"; 
       echo "status=$status\n";
    }
    else die('failed openssl_pkcs7_sign');
?>


Expected result:
----------------
status=1

Actual result:
--------------
error:2107C080:PKCS7 routines:PKCS7_get0_signers:signer certificate not found
status=1

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 [2016-03-14 08:59 UTC] allesbesser at gmail dot com 
The problem comes from the $outfilename argument which allows you to have PHP save the certificates used to sign the message.

The PHP source is here:
https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/420c7979d5743a4621b334f569c7ae8686f4f85f/ext/openssl/openssl.c

First, the function does what it should do and calls PKCS7_verify(). This function verifies the signature using the internal and $extracerts by calling:

signers = PKCS7_get0_signers(p7, others, (int)flags);

others are the $extracerts. Now, as you speified $extracerts, you also had to specify $outfilename. Hence, the PHP function makes another function call:

signers = PKCS7_get0_signers(p7, NULL, (int)flags);

this time without the extra certs. Now, as the internal certificates are empty, this function raises an error as there are no certificates.

There are several ways to fix this (apart from ignoring the error when $extracerts is not empty):
- Modify the OpenSSL code so that it does not raise the error when getting certificates
- Change the way PHP gets the certificates so that the error is not raised anymore
- Allow $outfilename to be NULL so that the function is not even called

Personally, I think passing NULL as $outfilename should be accepted in these OpenSSL functions.
 [2021-04-29 12:24 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Summary: openssl_pkcs7_verify returns TRUE, but openssl_error_string() returns an error +Summary: openssl_pkcs7_verify() may ignore untrusted CAs -PHP Version: 5.3.1 +PHP Version: 7.4 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2021-04-29 12:24 UTC] cmb@php.net 
I haven't been able to reproduce openssl_pkcs7_verify() to return
true in this case, but still, ignoring untrusted CAs appears to be
a bug.
 [2021-04-29 12:25 UTC] cmb@php.net 
The following pull request has been associated:

Patch Name: Fix #50713: openssl_pkcs7_verify() may ignore untrusted CAs
On GitHub:  https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/6927
Patch:      https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/6927.patch
 [2021-06-01 10:55 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Suspended
 [2021-06-01 10:55 UTC] cmb@php.net 
I suspend this ticket while waiting on further feedback on the PR.
 [2023-11-17 19:44 UTC] git@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of bukka
Revision: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/f90b40416ffa731f19e8a9a9674ea4a8ab43fe5d
Log: Fix #50713: openssl_pkcs7_verify() may ignore untrusted CAs
 [2023-11-17 19:44 UTC] git@php.net
-Status: Suspended +Status: Closed
 [2023-11-23 03:36 UTC] git@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of bukka (author) and ramsey (committer)
Revision: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/55e0748487f99e8bb60b8c4fd4f6e9c3857c8cf3
Log: Fix #50713: openssl_pkcs7_verify() may ignore untrusted CAs
 
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