Issue #1765 has been updated by jamtur01.

Status changed from Ready for Checkin to Closed
Assigned to set to jamtur01

Pushed in commit:"4e0de3881b55a728ee54e1cab5d3b9a6ab52a5a9" in branch master.
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Bug #1765: Certificate hostnames are not verified
http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/1765

Author: IanTurner
Status: Closed
Priority: Normal
Assigned to: jamtur01
Category: SSL
Target version: 0.25.0
Complexity: Hard
Affected version: 0.24.6
Keywords: certificate security spoof validation authentication dns


The puppetmaster only verifies the validity of the client certificate, but does 
not verify the associated hostname. Thus a client with a certificate signed as 
"publicserver" can instead claim to be "secretserver" and gain access to the 
latter's configuration. This certificate hostname spoofing can be a serious 
issue, since client configuration may include password hashes and other 
confidential data.

The best approach to client validation is to verify that all three of the 
following are identical at the FQDN level:
1. The FQDN on the signed client certificate.
2. The FQDN presented by the client facter invocation.
3. The result of a reverse lookup on the connecting client IP address.

Additionally, an address (A/AAAA record, not CNAME record) lookup on this FQDN 
should in turn yield the connecting client IP address in the query result.


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