RE: SSL Certificate Validation (Apache Users)

Thanks Rainer and Daniel.

Sorry for the confusion and please let me clarify.

We have a web server with Apache 2.2.22 with OpenSSL 0.9.8t, the Apache service launches fine and the users/developers are able to connect however developers through their code bypass the Server SSL certificate verification. I am not worried about the client certificate validation since we are not using it, all the concern is we need to stop users bypassing the Server SSL verification who are claiming they have to bypass it since the certificate name doesn’t match the server name in the link being called. Kindly note that configuration in hhtpd.conf is:

DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs"

ServerName xxx.xxx.com

SSLEngine On

SSLCertificateFile "C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\A.crt"

SSLCertificateKeyFile "C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\B.pem"

SSLCertificateChainFile "C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\C.crt"

</VirtualHost>

Regards,

From: Daniel [mailto:dferradal@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 12:38 PM
To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] SSL Certificate Validation

Hello Nizar,

You need to provide much more info on your current setup so we can provide any meaningful advice. Which SSL verification? What configuration?

Regarding httpd what's needed in config, the basic thing to have "SSLVerifyClient require" and a list of accepted CA's but that could be overriden in config, that's why you need to show your actual setup or more relevant info.
As an added note, if you have real concerns regarding security one of the best things to do is probably to consider upgrading your openssl version which seems ancient.

2018-02-08 7:16 GMT+01:00 Belmona, Nizar <nbelmona@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Dear users,

We are currently using Apache 2.2.22 (mod_ssl 2.2.22, OpenSSL/0.9.8t) and we have a security concern since developers are able to bypass the SSL certificate verification when using HTTPS calls. Kindly advise what configuration is needed to enforce the certificate verification? In other words should anyone tries to bypass this verification, the call fails returning some kind of error code.

Please note that our environment is a simple one; it consists of one web server with no proxies.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

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