Question: How can I force OpenSSL to use the same certificate validation algorithm used by the Chrome Browser and SSL Labs?
Details:
The certificate chain sent by "adswizz.com" includes a recently expired certificate from COMODO (expired May 30, 2020).
This OpenSSL command uses a simple algorithm that walks the cert-chain provided by the server, finds the expired certificate, and then reports "Verify return code: 10 (certificate has expired)".
openssl s_client -showcerts -connect adswizz.com:443 -servername adswizz.com < /dev/null
In contrast, visiting this SSL Labs URL shows the results from a more sophisticated algorithm that explores several different paths attempting to validate the server certificate.
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=adswizz.com
This finds 3 possible paths (see image below). Path #2 is the same path used by OpenSSL, so it fails due to the expired certificate, ... but Paths #1 and #3 both succeed. (Path #3 even downloads an additional certicate!)
We want to use openssl from the Linux command line, and use the glib-openssl library to support TLS communication with the server. What command-line options or library config settings can we use to force OpenSSL to validate a certificate and get the same result as the Chrome Browser.
We cannot force the 3rd party running the adswizz.com to update its certificate chain because they will "check" using Chrome and tell is, "Looks valid", ... but OpenSSL will still fail.
We need a fix or a workaround. Any ideas?
Any help would be appreciated.
# openssl s_client -showcerts -connect adswizz.com:443 -servername adswizz.com < /dev/null
CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=3 C = SE, O = AddTrust AB, OU = AddTrust External TTP Network, CN = AddTrust External CA Root
verify error:num=10:certificate has expired
notAfter=May 30 10:48:38 2020 GMT
---
Certificate chain
0 s:/OU=Domain Control Validated/OU=PositiveSSL Wildcard/CN=*.adswizz.com
i:/C=GB/ST=Greater Manchester/L=Salford/O=Sectigo Limited/CN=Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
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-----END CERTIFICATE-----
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i:/C=US/ST=New Jersey/L=Jersey City/O=The USERTRUST Network/CN=USERTrust RSA Certification Authority
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
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-----END CERTIFICATE-----
2 s:/C=US/ST=New Jersey/L=Jersey City/O=The USERTRUST Network/CN=USERTrust RSA Certification Authority
i:/C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External CA Root
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
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-----END CERTIFICATE-----
---
Server certificate
subject=/OU=Domain Control Validated/OU=PositiveSSL Wildcard/CN=*.adswizz.com
issuer=/C=GB/ST=Greater Manchester/L=Salford/O=Sectigo Limited/CN=Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
---
No client certificate CA names sent
Peer signing digest: SHA512
Server Temp Key: ECDH, P-256, 256 bits
---
SSL handshake has read 5334 bytes and written 454 bytes
---
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
Server public key is 2048 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
SSL-Session:
Protocol : TLSv1.2
Cipher : ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
Session-ID: B56072247A34ED804A1B84933F673D5029E02352C1EC96109F38991BCE1DA450
Session-ID-ctx:
Master-Key: 79A358537CE41E0CA4D3463848A9837397BB06B068547F702336723D42BB7DB0A788390E76F4264534D2B47EE2B1B48C
Key-Arg : None
PSK identity: None
PSK identity hint: None
SRP username: None
TLS session ticket lifetime hint: 300 (seconds)
TLS session ticket:
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0040 - 3e e4 94 21 c6 11 0b db-00 6b c7 16 87 c1 92 a2 >..!.....k......
0050 - 9a c3 dc 51 95 5d 44 6f-e0 f0 20 2c 44 9e 07 e3 ...Q.]Do.. ,D...
0060 - cb 0a 83 f2 8f 06 d8 9d-53 b8 85 a1 62 27 09 dd ........S...b'..
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0080 - 0a 86 30 32 e4 b2 3e ed-3c c4 81 49 42 60 19 9b ..02..>.<..IB`..
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00c0 - 19 e2 6a 9e d7 06 5e e7-3b 86 c1 0e cb 80 7e 6a ..j...^.;.....~j
Start Time: 1591065727
Timeout : 300 (sec)
Verify return code: 10 (certificate has expired)
---
DONE
