Re: SSL_CLIENT_SAN IP addr validation

[Marat Khalili <mkh@xxxxxx>]

Docs suggest using Require expr in place of SSLRequire. Require expr supports such variables as REMOTE_ADDR and CONN_REMOTE_ADDR. In any case, I do not see much sense in issuing or verifying certificates with IP address in subjectAltName.

What you probably want is accepting clients belonging to particular group. Issue them certificates with the same organizational unit and verify SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_OU as well as SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_O.

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With Best Regards,
Marat Khalili

On 15/12/16 13:46, Andrei Ivanov wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to validate incoming requests by comparing the request IP to the IP addresses provided in the client certificate subjectAltName.

Searching around, I found http://wiki.cacert.org/ApacheServerClientCertificateAuthentication, which gives an example using the email address:

SSLRequire %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_Email} =~ m/^[^@]*@example\.com$/
          or %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_Email_0} =~ m/^[^@]*@example\.com$/
          or %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_Email_1} =~ m/^[^@]*@example\.com$/
          or %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_Email_2} =~ m/^[^@]*@example\.com$/
          or %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_Email_3} =~ m/^[^@]*@example\.com$/

But there 2 problems:

1. the IP addresses are not exported as a variables by mod_ssl (see https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60456)

2. The number of IP addresses is variable, not sure how I could do the check with an _expression_

The Apache Httpd is a frontend for a PHP and a Python application, so it would be nice to be able to do this filtering in one place instead of doing it at the applications level.

Any suggestions?

Thank you.