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Bug 1486889 - htpasswd: support SHA-x passwords for FIPS compatibility
Summary: htpasswd: support SHA-x passwords for FIPS compatibility
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: httpd
Version: 7.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Luboš Uhliarik
QA Contact: Maryna Nalbandian
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Blocks: 1716962
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-30 17:34 UTC by Robert Bost
Modified: 2023-09-07 18:56 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

Fixed In Version: httpd-2.4.6-92.el7
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: 1725031 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2020-03-31 20:03:28 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1121 0 None None None 2020-03-31 20:04:05 UTC

Description Robert Bost 2017-08-30 17:34:02 UTC 
Description of problem:

# cat /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled 
1
# htpasswd -b -d -c /tmp/foobar user topsecret
htpasswd: crypt() failed: Operation not permitted


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): httpd-2.4.6-67.el7_4.2.x86_64


How reproducible: Always

Actual results: "Operation not permitted" when FIPS mode is enabled. Non-FIPS mode works perfect.


Expected results: I would expect an encryption method flag on htpasswd.

Additional info: Workaround is to use bcrypt or some other flag on htpasswd that doesn't call into crypt(), however, these bypass FIPS checks.
Comment 13 Robert Bost 2018-03-28 20:24:22 UTC 
Setting needinfo
Comment 16 Tomas Mraz 2018-04-05 13:37:51 UTC 
The password hashing is not really covered by FIPS requirements unless the password hash leaves the physical boundary of the FIPS module (the computer). I.E. there is no need for it to use FIPS compliant crypto.

However if there is a scenario where the password hash leaves the physical boundary then the password hashing must use a compliant algorithm - whether the SHA256 or SHA512 glibc password hash is that is somewhat debatable. AFAIK the only password based algorithm specified by NIST is PBKDF2 which could be used as password hashing algorithm however I do not know of any such use of PBKDF2.
Comment 20 Tomas Mraz 2018-04-06 06:50:24 UTC 
The ansible installer case is almost completely unrelated. The only connection is that it also creates password hash for httpd but the code used for that is different (coming from python passlib).

So this should be reported as a separate bug.

The ansible installer should either default to a different password hashing algorithm - either use SHA1 or bcrypt (if SHA256 and SHA512 password hashes are not supported by Apache).

Or the python-passlib could pass the override flag to the python hash function so it allows non-security-relevant use of MD5 when creating the hash.
Comment 25 Tomas Mraz 2018-04-23 07:46:16 UTC 
To add more information to the comment #16 - there might be customers that have more strict requirements than what is mandated by FIPS. They might require at least using FIPS approved hash as the underlying crypto primitive which is the password hash based on.
Comment 34 Joe Orton 2019-06-21 16:21:45 UTC 
Submitted for review upstream, with "htpasswd -2" and "htpasswd -5" selecting SHA-256/512 respectively.

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1861793
Comment 41 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-31 20:03:28 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1121
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