open-vault/changelog/16874.txt
Alexander Scheel f7bc1c8e3c
Cleanup changes around issuer revocation (#16874)
* Refactor CRL tests to use /sys/mounts

Thanks Steve for the approach! This also address nits from Kit.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>

* Skip CRL building steps when disabled

This skips a number of steps during CRL build when it is disabled (and
forceNew is not set). In particular, we avoid fetching issuers, we avoid
associating issuers with revocation entries (and building that in-memory
mapping), making CRL building more efficient.

This means that there'll again be very little overhead on clusters with
the CRL disabled.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>

* Prevent revoking roots from appearing on own CRLs

This change ensures that when marking a root as revoked, it no longer
appears on its own CRL. Very few clients support this event (as
generally only leaves/intermediates are checked for presence on a
parent's CRL) and it is technically undefined behavior (if the root is
revoked, its own CRL should be untrusted and thus including it on its
own CRL isn't a safe/correct distribution channel).

Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>

* Ensure stability of revInfo issuer identification

As mentioned by Kit, iterating through each revInfoEntry and associating
the first issuer which matches it can cause churn when many (equivalent)
issuers are in the system and issuers come and go (via CRLSigning usage,
which has been modified in this release as well). Because we'd not
include issuers without CRLSigning usage, we'd cause our verification
helper, isRevInfoIssuerValid, to think the issuer ID is no longer value
(when instead, it just lacks crlSigning bits).

We address this by pulling in all issuers we know of for the
identification. This allows us to keep valid-but-not-for-signing
issuers, and use other representatives of their identity set for
signing/building the CRL (if they are enabled for such usage).

As a side effect, we now no longer place these entries on the default
CRL in the event all issuers in the CRL set are without the usage.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>

* Add changelog entry

This is only for the last commit.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>

Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>
2022-08-25 11:36:37 -04:00

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```release-note:improvement
secrets/pki: Improve stability of association of revoked cert with its parent issuer; when an issuer loses crl-signing usage, do not place certs on default issuer's CRL.
```