If a CA config update did not cause a root change, the codepath would return early and skip some steps which preserve its intermediate certificates and signing key ID. This commit re-orders some code and prevents updates from generating new intermediate certificates.
All of the current integration tests where Vault is the Connect CA now use non-root tokens for the test. This helps us detect privilege changes in the vault model so we can keep our guides up to date.
One larger change was that the RenewIntermediate function got refactored slightly so it could be used from a test, rather than the large duplicated function we were testing in a test which seemed error prone.
The fix outlined and merged in #15253 fixed the issue as it occurs in the primary
DC. There is a similar issue that arises when vault is used as the Connect CA in a
secondary datacenter that is fixed by this PR.
Additionally: this PR adds support to run the existing suite of vault related integration
tests against the last 4 versions of vault (1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12)
Co-authored-by: Eric Haberkorn <erichaberkorn@gmail.com>
By adding a SpiffeID for server agents, servers can now request a leaf
certificate from the Connect CA.
This new Spiffe ID has a key property: servers are identified by their
datacenter name and trust domain. All servers that share these
attributes will share a ServerURI.
The aim is to use these certificates to verify the server name of ANY
server in a Consul datacenter.
This is only configured in xDS when a service with an L7 protocol is
exported.
They also load any relevant trust bundles for the peered services to
eventually use for L7 SPIFFE validation during mTLS termination.
For mTLS to work between two proxies in peered clusters with different root CAs,
proxies need to configure their outbound listener to use different root certificates
for validation.
Up until peering was introduced proxies would only ever use one set of root certificates
to validate all mesh traffic, both inbound and outbound. Now an upstream proxy
may have a leaf certificate signed by a CA that's different from the dialing proxy's.
This PR makes changes to proxycfg and xds so that the upstream TLS validation
uses different root certificates depending on which cluster is being dialed.
Introduces a gRPC endpoint for signing Connect leaf certificates. It's also
the first of the public gRPC endpoints to perform leader-forwarding, so
establishes the pattern of forwarding over the multiplexed internal RPC port.
This commit makes two changes to the validation.
Previously we would call this validation in GenerateRoot, which happens
both on initialization (when a follower becomes leader), and when a
configuration is updated. We only want to do this validation during
config update so the logic was moved to the UpdateConfiguration
function.
Previously we would compare the config values against the actual cert.
This caused problems when the cert was created manually in Vault (not
created by Consul). Now we compare the new config against the previous
config. Using a already created CA cert should never error now.
Adding the key bit and types to the config should only error when
the previous values were not the defaults.
This test found a bug in the secondary. We were appending the root cert
to the PEM, but that cert was already appended. This was failing
validation in Vault here:
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/sdk/v0.3.0/sdk/helper/certutil/types.go#L329
Previously this worked because self signed certs have the same
SubjectKeyID and AuthorityKeyID. So having the same self-signed cert
repeated doesn't fail that check.
However with an intermediate that is not self-signed, those values are
different, and so we fail the check. A test I added in a previous commit
should show that this continues to work with self-signed root certs as
well.
`newIntermediate` is always equal to `needsNewIntermediate`, so we can
remove the extra variable and use the original directly.
Also remove the `activeRoot.ID != newActiveRoot.ID` case from an if,
because that case is already checked above, and `needsNewIntermediate` will
already be true in that case.
This condition now reads a lot better:
> Persist a new root if we did not have one before, or if generated a new intermediate.
In the previous commit the single use of this storedRoot was removed.
In this commit the original objective is completed. The
Provider.ActiveRoot is being removed because
1. the secondary should get the active root from the Consul primary DC,
not the provider, so that secondary DCs do not need to communicate
with a provider instance in a different DC.
2. so that the Provider.ActiveRoot interface can be changed without
impacting other code paths.
This method had only one caller, which always looked for the active
root. This commit moves the lookup into the method to reduce the logic
in the one caller.
This is being done in preparation for a larger change. Keeping this
separate so it is easier to see.
The `storedRootID != primaryRoots.ActiveRootID` is being removed because
these can never be different.
The `storedRootID` comes from `provider.ActiveRoot`, the
`primaryRoots.ActiveRootID` comes from the store `CARoot` from the
primary. In both cases the source of the data is the primary DC.
Technically they could be different if someone modified the provider
outside of Consul, but that would break many things, so is not a
supported flow.
If these were out of sync because of ordering of events then the
secondary will soon receive an update to `primaryRoots` and everything
will be sorted out again.
ActiveRoot should not be called from the secondary DC, because there
should not be a requirement to run the same Vault instance in a
secondary DC. SignIntermediate is called in a secondary DC, so it should
not call ActiveRoot
We would also like to change the interface of ActiveRoot so that we can
support using an intermediate cert as the primary CA in Consul. In
preparation for making that change I am reducing the number of calls to
ActiveRoot, so that there are fewer code paths to modify when the
interface changes.
This change required a change to the mockCAServerDelegate we use in
tests. It was returning the RootCert for SignIntermediate, but that is
not an accurate fake of production. In production this would also be a
separate cert.
Immediately above this line we are already appending the full list of
intermediates. The `provider.ActiveIntermediate` MUST be in this list of
intermediates because it must be available to all the other non-leader
Servers. If it was not in this list of intermediates then any proxy
that received data from a non-leader would have the wrong certs.
This is being removed now because we are planning on changing the
`Provider.ActiveIntermediate` interface, and removing these extra calls ahead of
time helps make that change easier.
I suspect one problem was that we set structs.IntermediateCertRenewInterval to 1ms, which meant
that in some cases the intermediate could renew before we stored the original value.
Another problem was that the 'wait for intermediate' loop was calling the provider.ActiveIntermediate,
but the comparison needs to use the RPC endpoint to accurately represent a user request. So
changing the 'wait for' to use the state store ensures we don't race.
Also moves the patching into a separate function.
Removes the addition of ca.CertificateTimeDriftBuffer as part of calculating halfTime. This was added
in a previous commit to attempt to fix the flake, but it did not appear to fix the problem. Adding the
time here was making the tests fail when using the shared patch
function. It's not clear to me why, but there's no reason we should be
including this time in the halfTime calculation.
The test added in this commit shows the problem. Previously the
SigningKeyID was set to the RootCert not the local leaf signing cert.
This same bug was fixed in two other places back in 2019, but this last one was
missed.
While fixing this bug I noticed I had the same few lines of code in 3
places, so I extracted a new function for them.
There would be 4 places, but currently the InitializeCA flow sets this
SigningKeyID in a different way, so I've left that alone for now.
While working on the CA system it is important to be able to run all the
tests related to the system, without having to wait for unrelated tests.
There are many slow and unrelated tests in agent/consul, so we need some
way to filter to only the relevant tests.
This PR renames all the CA system related tests to start with either
`TestCAMananger` for tests of internal operations that don't have RPC
endpoint, or `TestConnectCA` for tests of RPC endpoints. This allows us
to run all the test with:
go test -run 'TestCAMananger|TestConnectCA' ./agent/consul
The test naming follows an undocumented convention of naming tests as
follows:
Test[<struct name>_]<function name>[_<test case description>]
I tried to always keep Primary/Secondary at the end of the description,
and _Vault_ has to be in the middle because of our regex to run those
tests as a separate CI job.
You may notice some of the test names changed quite a bit. I did my best
to identify the underlying method being tested, but I may have been
slightly off in some cases.
As a method on the struct type this would not be safe to call without first checking
c.isIntermediateUsedToSignLeaf.
So for now, move this logic to the CAMananger, so that it is always correct.
We were not adding the local signing cert to the CARoot. This commit
fixes that bug, and also adds support for fixing existing CARoot on
upgrade.
Also update the tests for both primary and secondary to be more strict.
Check the SigningKeyID is correct after initialization and rotation.
In d2ab767fef21244e9fe3b9887ea70fc177912381 raftApply was changed to handle this check in
a single place, instad of having every caller check it. It looks like these few places
were missed when I did that clean up.
This commit removes the remaining resp.(error) checks, since they are all no-ops now.
This function is only ever called from operations that have already acquired the state lock, so checking
the value of state can never fail.
This change is being made in preparation for splitting out a separate type for the secondary logic. The
state can't easily be shared, so really only the expored top-level functions should acquire the 'state lock'.
This commit removes the actingSecondaryCA field, and removes the stateLock around it. This field
was acting as a proxy for providerRoot != nil, so replace it with that check instead.
The two methods which called secondarySetCAConfigured already set the state, so checking the
state again at this point will not catch runtime errors (only programming errors, which we can catch with tests).
In general, handling state transitions should be done on the "entrypoint" methods where execution starts, not
in every internal method.
This is being done to remove some unnecessary references to c.state, in preparations for extracting
types for primary/secondary.
This makes it easier to fake, which will allow me to use the ConsulProvider as
an 'external PKI' to test a customer setup where the actual root CA is not
the root we use for the Consul CA.
Replaces a call to the state store to fetch the clusterID with the
clusterID field already available on the built-in provider.
Previously secondaryInitialize would return nil in this case, which prevented the
deferred initialize from happening, and left the CA in an uninitialized state until a config
update or root rotation.
To fix this I extracted the common parts into the delegate implementation. However looking at this
again, it seems like the handling in secondaryUpdateRoots is impossible, because that function
should never be called before the secondary is initialzied. I beleive we can remove some of that
logic in a follow up.
This function is only run when the CAManager is a primary. Extracting this function
makes it clear which parts of UpdateConfiguration are run only in the primary and
also makes the cleanup logic simpler. Instead of both a defer and a local var we
can call the cleanup function in two places.
This commit renames functions to use a consistent pattern for identifying the functions that
can only be called when the Manager is run as the primary or secondary.
This is a step toward eventually creating separate types and moving these methods off of CAManager.
* defer setting the state before returning to avoid being stuck in `INITIALIZING` state
* add changelog
* move comment with the right if statement
* ca: report state transition error from setSTate
* update comment to reflect state transition
Co-authored-by: Daniel Nephin <dnephin@hashicorp.com>
