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From: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Cc: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] vpnmain.cgi: Fixes bug12298 - IPSec password cannot use semicolon
Date: Sun,  9 Mar 2025 15:12:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250309141209.18633-1-adolf.belka@ipfire.org> (raw)

- The password for the pkcs12 certificate is passed to the open ssl command via $opt but
   it is not quoted and so the ; is taken as the end of the command rather than as part
   of the password. This also means that a pkcs12 file is not created and the .pem
   intermediate file is what is left in the directory.
- This patch makes the -passout option quoted in the same way as the -name and -caname
   options.
- Based on being the same as the name and caname parts in $opt, I believe that this should
   not give rise to a vulnerability but I am open to being corrected.
- By quoting the -passout then the password must not contain double quotation marks, ",
   so a test for the password containing a " has been added.
- The message about the use of the double quotation mark has been added to the english,
   dutch and german language files. Feel free to correct if what I have used is not
   correct. Those are in the other patch of this patch set.
- Tested out on my testbed system. I was able to create a pkcs12 certificate with a
   password containing a variety of characters, including the semicolon, and getting
   a message that the password contains a double quotation mark when I used that.

Fixes: bug12298
Tested-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
---
 html/cgi-bin/vpnmain.cgi | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 mode change 100755 => 100644 html/cgi-bin/vpnmain.cgi

diff --git a/html/cgi-bin/vpnmain.cgi b/html/cgi-bin/vpnmain.cgi
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index c9bbbb494..8106ee24e
--- a/html/cgi-bin/vpnmain.cgi
+++ b/html/cgi-bin/vpnmain.cgi
@@ -2149,6 +2149,10 @@ END
 			$errormessage = $Lang::tr{'password too short'};
 			goto VPNCONF_ERROR;
 		}
+		if ($cgiparams{'CERT_PASS1'} =~ /["]/) {
+			$errormessage = $Lang::tr{'password has quotation mark'};
+			goto VPNCONF_ERROR;
+		}
 		if ($cgiparams{'CERT_PASS1'} ne $cgiparams{'CERT_PASS2'}) {
 			$errormessage = $Lang::tr{'passwords do not match'};
 			goto VPNCONF_ERROR;
@@ -2226,7 +2230,7 @@ END
 		$opt .= " -inkey ${General::swroot}/certs/$cgiparams{'NAME'}key.pem";
 		$opt .= " -in ${General::swroot}/certs/$cgiparams{'NAME'}cert.pem";
 		$opt .= " -name \"$cgiparams{'NAME'}\"";
-		$opt .= " -passout pass:$cgiparams{'CERT_PASS1'}";
+		$opt .= " -passout pass:\"$cgiparams{'CERT_PASS1'}\"";
 		$opt .= " -certfile ${General::swroot}/ca/cacert.pem";
 		$opt .= " -caname \"$vpnsettings{'ROOTCERT_ORGANIZATION'} CA\"";
 		$opt .= " -out ${General::swroot}/certs/$cgiparams{'NAME'}.p12";
-- 
2.48.1



             reply	other threads:[~2025-03-09 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-09 14:12 Adolf Belka [this message]
2025-03-09 14:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] language files: Update to include a message about a double quotation mark Adolf Belka
2025-03-10  9:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] vpnmain.cgi: Fixes bug12298 - IPSec password cannot use semicolon Michael Tremer
2025-03-10 10:48   ` Adolf Belka
2025-03-10 11:15     ` Michael Tremer

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