> The currently recommended certificate chain as presented to Let’s Encrypt ACME clients when new certificates are issued contains an intermediate certificate (ISRG Root X1) that is signed by an old DST Root CA X3 certificate that expires on 2021-09-30. In some cases the OpenSSL 1.0.2 version will regard the certificates issued by the Let’s Encrypt CA as having an expired trust chain.
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> Most up-to-date CA cert trusted bundles, as provided by operating systems, contain this soon-to-be-expired certificate. The current CA cert bundles also contain an ISRG Root X1 self-signed certificate. This means that clients verifying certificate chains can find the alternative non-expired path to the ISRG Root X1 self-signed certificate in their trust store.
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> Unfortunately this does not apply to OpenSSL 1.0.2 which always prefers the untrusted chain and if that chain contains a path that leads to an expired trusted root certificate (DST Root CA X3), it will be selected for the certificate verification and the expiration will be reported.
References:
* [https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2021/09/13/LetsEncryptRootCertExpire/ Old Let’s Encrypt Root Certificate Expiration and OpenSSL 1.0.2]
* [https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-ca-x3-expiration-september-2021/ DST Root CA X3 Expiration (September 2021)]
Follow-up to [25224], [25426], [25569], [27307], [30491], [30765], [34283], [35919], [36570], [46094].
Props bradleyt, fierevere, SergeyBiryukov, peterwilsoncc.
Merges [51883] to the 5.5 branch.
Fixes#54207. See #50828.
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Keep 1024-bit legacy root certificates re-added in [35919], except for those already expired, for compatibility with older OpenSSL versions.
Props barry, ayeshrajans, desrosj, whyisjake.
Reviewed by whyisjake, SergeyBiryukov.
Merges [48707] to the 5.5 branch.
See #50828.
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Also use 'back-compat' in some inline comments where backward compatibility is the subject and shorthand feels more natural.
Note: 'backwards compatibility/compatibile' can also be considered correct, though it's primary seen in regular use in British English.
Props ocean90.
Fixes#36835.
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Most browsers no longer trust 1024bit certificates, or certificates signed by them, instead verifying them by a trusted intermediate or a cross-sign from another trusted certificate.
Unfortunately, as it turns out, OpenSSL prior to 1.0.1g cannot correctly handle certificates chains such as this, even if one of the intermediates is trusted.
The solution is that we need to continue to trust the 1024bit legacy root certificates forthe foreseeable future
This adds the following certificates back into our trust store:
{{{
GTE CyberTrust Global Root
Thawte Server CA
Thawte Premium Server CA
Verisign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority
Verisign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G2
ValiCert Class 1 VA
ValiCert Class 2 VA
RSA Root Certificate 1
Entrust.net Secure Server CA
Equifax Secure Global eBusiness CA
Equifax Secure eBusiness CA 1
America Online Root Certification Authority 1
America Online Root Certification Authority 2
NetLock Business (Class B) Root
NetLock Express (Class C) Root
Verisign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority
}}}
Props rmccue
Fixes#34935 for trunk.
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This changeset also bundles ca-bundle.crt from the Mozilla project to allow for us to verify SSL certificates on hosts which have an incomplete, outdated, or invalid local SSL configuration.
Props rmccue for major assistance getting this this far. See #25007 for discussion, also Fixes#16606
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