Commit cbcbaa72 authored by Guus der Kinderen's avatar Guus der Kinderen

OF-1119: Do not depend on ordering of chains

When validating a certificate chain, the provided chain aught to be ordered. If our
own ordering fails, we should use the first certifcate of the (unordered) chain,
instead of failing completely.
parent bff8396b
package org.jivesoftware.openfire.keystore;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import java.security.Principal;
import java.security.cert.*;
import java.util.*;
......@@ -11,6 +14,8 @@ import java.util.*;
*/
public class CertificateUtils
{
private static final Logger Log = LoggerFactory.getLogger( CertificateUtils.class );
/**
* Returns all valid certificates from the provided input, where validity references the notBefore and notAfter
* dates of each certificate.
......@@ -223,7 +228,8 @@ public class CertificateUtils
* part of the same chain (or chain segment). Each certificate in the chain is expected to have issued another
* certificate from the chain, except for one. That one certificate is returned.
*
* This method will throw an exception when no valid chain was provided.
* When ordering the chain fails (for example, when the collection of certificates do not belong to one linear list)
* the first certificate from the chain is returned.
*
* @param chain The chain (possibly incomplete or unordered, but not null, empty or malformed).
* @return The end entity certificate (never null).
......@@ -231,12 +237,20 @@ public class CertificateUtils
*/
public static X509Certificate identifyEndEntityCertificate( Collection<X509Certificate> chain ) throws CertificateException
{
final List<X509Certificate> ordered = order( chain );
if (ordered.isEmpty()) {
if ( chain.isEmpty() )
{
throw new CertificateException();
}
return ordered.get( 0 );
try
{
return order( chain ).get( 0 );
}
catch ( CertificateException ex )
{
Log.warn( "Unable to order the provided chain. As a fallback, the end entity certificate is assumed to be the first certificate of the input.", ex );
return chain.iterator().next();
}
}
/**
......
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