security: require SCEP challenge password when SCEP enabled (fixes H-2)

Problem (CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function):
internal/service/scep.go PKCSReq skipped the shared-secret check when
s.challengePassword was empty. An unconfigured-but-enabled SCEP server
accepted any unauthenticated client reaching /scep and issued a
certificate against the configured issuer for any CSR with a valid
signature. No audit trail distinguished authenticated from
unauthenticated enrollments. This matches the two-layer fail-closed
pattern already used for C-2 (fb4ce1a): reject at startup AND reject
at the service boundary.

Fix (two layers, defense-in-depth):

Layer 1 — startup pre-flight in cmd/server/main.go:
  preflightSCEPChallengePassword returns a non-nil error when SCEP is
  enabled and CERTCTL_SCEP_CHALLENGE_PASSWORD is empty. main logs and
  os.Exit(1)s before the SCEP service is constructed. Disabled SCEP is
  unaffected. The helper is unit-testable in isolation.

Layer 2 — service-layer rejection in internal/service/scep.go:
  PKCSReq refuses enrollment when s.challengePassword == "" even though
  main already blocks this state — protects future call sites (tests,
  library reuse, a REST-over-HTTPS wrapper). When a secret is
  configured, the comparison now uses crypto/subtle.ConstantTimeCompare
  so response time does not leak the configured secret through a
  short-circuiting byte compare.

Files:
- cmd/server/main.go: preflightSCEPChallengePassword helper; call site
  inside the `if cfg.SCEP.Enabled` block before issuer lookup; fatal
  slog error references CWE-306 and names the env var so operators can
  diagnose the startup failure without reading code.
- cmd/server/main_test.go: TestPreflightSCEPChallengePassword with five
  table-driven subtests (disabled empty, disabled set, enabled empty
  rejected, enabled set, single-char boundary). The enabled-empty case
  asserts the error string contains both CERTCTL_SCEP_CHALLENGE_PASSWORD
  and CWE-306 so the log message remains actionable.
- internal/config/config.go: SCEPConfig.ChallengePassword godoc now
  states the field is REQUIRED when SCEP.Enabled and cross-references
  preflightSCEPChallengePassword.
- internal/service/scep.go: imports crypto/subtle; PKCSReq rewritten
  with the two-layer check; comment block cites H-2 / CWE-306 and the
  constant-time rationale.
- internal/service/scep_test.go: existing tests that relied on the
  vulnerable empty-password path now configure a secret on both sides.
  TestSCEPService_PKCSReq_ChallengePassword_NotRequired is replaced by
  TestSCEPService_PKCSReq_ChallengePassword_EmptyServerConfigRejected
  which iterates ["", "any-value", "guess"] against an unconfigured
  server and asserts "not configured" in the error. A new
  TestSCEPService_PKCSReq_ChallengePassword_ConstantTimeLengthIndependence
  exercises same-prefix-longer and wrong-case inputs to guard against a
  regression from ConstantTimeCompare to a short-circuiting byte compare.
- internal/service/m11c_crypto_enforcement_test.go: four tests
  (RejectsWeakKey, AcceptsStrongKey, MaxTTL_ForwardedToIssuer,
  NoProfileRepo_PassesThrough) constructed NewSCEPService with an empty
  challenge password and exercised PKCSReq through the now-rejected
  vulnerable path. All four now configure "secret123" on both sides with
  an inline H-2 comment; the crypto/MaxTTL/profile behavior they assert
  is unchanged.

Wire-format / behavioral invariants preserved:
- RFC 8894 SCEP handler is untouched (internal/api/handler/scep.go and
  internal/pkcs7/*): GetCACaps/GetCACert responses, PKIOperation request
  parsing, and the PKCS#7 certs-only response format are byte-identical.
- RFC 7030 EST handler is untouched
  (internal/api/handler/est.go + internal/pkcs7/*).
- Revocation idempotency composite key (H-1, migration 000012) untouched.
- AES-256-GCM config encryption (C-2) untouched.
- CRL DER bytes and OCSP response bytes unchanged.

Verification:
- go build ./...              silent success
- go vet ./...                silent success
- go test -race -count=1 ./internal/service/ ./cmd/server/
  ./internal/api/handler/ ./internal/integration/    all OK
- Coverage with comfortable headroom over CI gates:
    service     67.8% (gate 55%)
    handler     79.0% (gate 60%)
    domain      92.7% (gate 40%)
    middleware  80.0% (gate 30%)
    cmd/server  1.6%  (preflightSCEPChallengePassword: 100%)
  internal/service/scep.go PKCSReq statement coverage: 100%.
- rg sweeps: no `s.challengePassword != ""` remains;
  no `challengePassword != s.challengePassword` remains.

Operational note: operators with SCEP enabled but no challenge password
set will see a fatal startup error and a log line citing
CERTCTL_SCEP_CHALLENGE_PASSWORD and CWE-306 after upgrading. This is the
intended fail-closed behavior. Fix by either setting the env var to a
non-empty shared secret or setting CERTCTL_SCEP_ENABLED=false.

Audit report: certctl-audit-report.md (revision 5) logs this under
H-2 Resolution Log.
This commit is contained in:
Shankar
2026-04-16 22:22:51 +00:00
parent 844a05cc02
commit d4f559ebbb
6 changed files with 201 additions and 33 deletions
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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package service
import (
"context"
"crypto/subtle"
"crypto/x509"
"encoding/pem"
"fmt"
@@ -68,14 +69,34 @@ func (s *SCEPService) GetCACert(ctx context.Context) (string, error) {
// PKCSReq processes a SCEP enrollment request.
// RFC 8894 Section 3.3.1: PKCSReq contains a PKCS#10 CSR for certificate enrollment.
// The CSR PEM and challenge password are extracted by the handler from the PKCS#7 envelope.
//
// H-2 fix (CWE-306): the previous implementation skipped the shared-secret
// check entirely when s.challengePassword was empty, meaning any unauthenticated
// client that could reach /scep could enroll a CSR against the configured
// issuer. Reject that configuration defense-in-depth even though main() already
// refuses to start in the same state (see preflightSCEPChallengePassword). The
// non-empty branch now uses crypto/subtle.ConstantTimeCompare to avoid leaking
// the shared secret through a response-time side channel.
func (s *SCEPService) PKCSReq(ctx context.Context, csrPEM string, challengePassword string, transactionID string) (*domain.SCEPEnrollResult, error) {
// Validate challenge password
if s.challengePassword != "" {
if challengePassword != s.challengePassword {
s.logger.Warn("SCEP enrollment rejected: invalid challenge password",
"transaction_id", transactionID)
return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid challenge password")
}
// Defense-in-depth: refuse any enrollment when no shared secret is
// configured. The server-level pre-flight check in cmd/server/main.go
// normally prevents the service from being constructed in this state, but
// this branch also protects future call sites (tests, library reuse, a
// future REST-over-HTTPS wrapper) from silently accepting unauthenticated
// CSRs.
if s.challengePassword == "" {
s.logger.Warn("SCEP enrollment rejected: server has no challenge password configured",
"transaction_id", transactionID)
return nil, fmt.Errorf("SCEP challenge password not configured on server")
}
// Constant-time compare avoids leaking the configured secret through
// response-time variance. ConstantTimeCompare returns 1 only when both
// slices have equal length AND equal content; a mismatched-length input
// still takes the same path as a content mismatch.
if subtle.ConstantTimeCompare([]byte(challengePassword), []byte(s.challengePassword)) != 1 {
s.logger.Warn("SCEP enrollment rejected: invalid challenge password",
"transaction_id", transactionID)
return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid challenge password")
}
return s.processEnrollment(ctx, csrPEM, transactionID, "scep_pkcsreq")