Hello,

One of my customers did a lot of foot work on this issue:

 "So I believe the error is occurring when certmonger tries to request the scep ca certs using the scep-submit command.


We have observed an error initially when we try to add the scep-ca as an available ca for getcert.  In order to add the scep-ca, we first need to retrieve the CA certs using the scep-submit command:


# /usr/libexec/certmonger/scep-submit -vvv -u https://my.ndes.server/certsrv/mscep -C
> GET /certsrv/mscep?operation=GetCACert HTTP/1.1
Host: my.ndes.server
Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< Location: https://my.ndes.server/certsrv/mscep/?operation=GetCACert
< Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5
< Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:35:29 GMT
< Content-Length: 179
<
* Ignoring the response-body
* Connection #0 to host my.ndes.server left intact
* Issue another request to this URL: 'https://my.ndes.server/certsrv/mscep/?operation=GetCACert'
* Found bundle for host my.ndes.server: 0x561909f41230
* Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host my.ndes.server
* Connected to my.ndes.server (a.b.c.22) port 443 (#0)
> GET /certsrv/mscep/?operation=GetCACert HTTP/1.1
Host: my.ndes.server
Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5
< Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:35:29 GMT
< Content-Length: 0
<
* Connection #0 to host my.ndes.server left intact
GET "https://my.ndes.server/certsrv/mscep?operation=GetCACert"
response_code = 200
content-type = "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
code = 0
code_text = "No error"
results = ""
Internal error: no response to "https://my.ndes.server/certsrv/mscep?operation=GetCACert".
When using the earlier version of certmonger 0.78.4-11, the url has &message=0 appended, and the certs are returned at the end of the command:


< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< Location: https://my.ndes.server/certsrv/mscep/?operation=GetCAChain&message=0
< Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5
< Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:38:10 GMT
< Content-Length: 194
<
* Ignoring the response-body
* Connection #1 to host my.ndes.server left intact
* Issue another request to this URL: 'https://my.ndes.server/certsrv/mscep/?operation=GetCAChain&message=0'
* Found bundle for host my.ndes.server: 0x55603380df80
* Re-using existing connection! (#1) with host my.ndes.server
* Connected to my.ndes.server (a.b.c.22) port 443 (#1)
> GET /certsrv/mscep/?operation=GetCAChain&message=0 HTTP/1.1
Host: my.ndes.server
Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5
< Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:38:10 GMT
< Content-Length: 0
<
* Connection #1 to host my.ndes.server left intact
GET "https://my.ndes.server/certsrv/mscep?operation=GetCAChain&message=0"
response_code = 200
content-type = "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
code = 0
code_text = "No error"
results = ""
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
....(certs print here)
I can "fool" this command into working with 0.78.4-12, by manually changing my url:


/usr/libexec/certmonger/scep-submit -vvv -u "https://my.ndes.server/certsrv/mscep?operation=GetCACert&message=0" -C
...
* Connection #0 to host my.ndes.server left intact
* Issue another request to this URL: 'https://my.ndes.server/certsrv/mscep/?operation=GetCACert&message=0?operation=GetCACert'
...
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
but as you can see, the URL that ends up getting used is not exactly "correct": https://my.ndes.server/certsrv/mscep/?operation=GetCACert&message=0?operation=GetCACert.  


Nevertheless, I now have the CA certs, and we can split them up into the necessary components, and use them to add the scep-ca configuration to certmonger:


getcert add-scep-ca -c my_domain_ndes_ca -u https://my.ndes.server/certsrv/mscep -R /etc/pki/CA/certs/my_domain_ndes_ca_cert-2.crt -r /etc/pki/CA/certs/my_domain_ndes_ca_cert-1.crt -I /etc/pki/CA/certs/my_domain_ndes_ca_ra_chain.crt
However, when I try to request a cert using getcert req, I receive the NEED_SCEP_ENCRYPTION_CERT error:


# getcert request -k /etc/pki/tls/private/$(hostname -f).key -f /etc/pki/tls/certs/$(hostname -f).key -I $(hostname -f)_ssl_cert -g 2048 -c my_domaon_ndes_ca -T "0.MYTemplate" -N "CN=$(hostname -f),OU=MY,O=ORG,C=US" -D $(hostname -f) -A a.b.c.94

# getcert list

Number of certificates and requests being tracked: 1.
Request ID 'hostname-00-07-5_ssl_cert':
        status: NEED_SCEP_ENCRYPTION_CERT
        ca-error: Error reading request, expected PKCS7 data.
        stuck: yes
        key pair storage: type=FILE,location='/etc/pki/tls/private/hostname-00-07-5.key'
        certificate: type=FILE,location='/etc/pki/tls/certs/hostname-00-07-5.key'
        CA: my_domain_ndes_ca
        issuer:
        subject:
        expires: unknown
        pre-save command:
        post-save command:
        track: yes
        auto-renew: yes
And based on what the man page for scep-submit, this error occurs when "The service is waiting until it can retrieve a copy of the CA's certificate".
I've interpreted this to mean that certmonger is running the scep-submit command with -C, to request the CA certs.  If that's the case, then it is most likely encountering the same error that we have seen when running scep-submit with -C.  When scep-submit is run with -C, no CA certs are returned, because of the missing &message=0 on certmonger 0.78.4-12.


As I mentioned in my initial writeup, this may be "broken" functionality in the MS CA, because message=0 should not be required as per the spec.  However, if there were a way to manually specify to certmonger to use this on MS CA's, that would be helpful as a workaround for this particular MS CA quirk.
 "


Thanks,

What version(s) of AD is this known to not work on so we can reproduce.

so far one cu has responded with Windows Server 2012 R2

The nourse RFC makes it clear that GetCACert is not required to send message.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nourse-scep-23#section-5.2.1

5.2.1.  GetCACert

   The OPERATION MUST be set to "GetCACert".

   The MESSAGE MAY be omitted, or it MAY be a string that represents the
   certification authority issuer identifier.  A CA Administrator
   defined string allows for multiple CAs supported by one SCEP server.

The guttman RFC is less clear.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gutmann-scep/?include_text=1

4.2.  Get CA Certificate

   To get the CA certificate(s), the client sends a GetCACert message to
   the CA.  The OPERATION MUST be set to "GetCACert".  There is no
   request data associated with this message.

It seems it is safe to exclude &message=id from GetCACert and only provide it for GetCACaps. The current default identifier of 0 should be sufficient.

For reproduction purposes you want to verify that message=CA-IDENT is included in GetCACaps requests.

To do this call the helper directly against a SCEP server. The -c option means ask for the CA capabilities and -v will display the request information. For example:

# /usr/libexec/certmonger/scep-submit -u https://interop.redwax.eu/test/simple/scep -cv
GET "https://interop.redwax.eu/test/simple/scep?operation=GetCACaps&message=0
response_code = 200
content-type = "text/plain"
code = 0
code_text = "No error"
...

The default CA-IDENT in certmonger is 0. This request shows that message is properly sent.  You can also add your own identifier with -i IDENT, ala

# /usr/libexec/certmonger/scep-submit -u https://interop.redwax.eu/test/simple/scep -cv -i CAIdentifier
GET "https://interop.redwax.eu/test/simple/scep?operation=GetCACaps&message=CAIdentifier"
response_code = 200
content-type = "text/plain"
code = 0
code_text = "No error"
...

Similarly confirm that the GetCACert command does not include the message using option -C:

# /usr/libexec/certmonger/scep-submit -u https://child-dc/certsrv/mscep/mscep.dll -C -v
GET "https://child-dc/certsrv/mscep/mscep.dll?operation=GetCACert"
response_code = 200
content-type = "application/x-x509-ca-ra-cert"
code = 0
code_text = "No error"
...

And specifying an identifier:

# /usr/libexec/certmonger/scep-submit -u https://child-dc/certsrv/mscep/mscep.dll -C -v -i CAIdentifier
GET "https://child-dc/certsrv/mscep/mscep.dll?operation=GetCACert"
response_code = 200
content-type = "application/x-x509-ca-ra-cert"
code = 0
code_text = "No error"
...

I tested against an AD 2012 evaluation server instance and it requires message=<ident> for both the getcaps and getcacert operations.

Fixing this properly is going to create what looks like a regression in BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1608781 . It won't be.

From what I can tell an EJBCA CA has a name. It expects this name in the message sent for GetCACaps and GetCACert.  certmonger defaults to 0 so the message didn't match a known EJBCA CA.

In the docs about a different SCEP client, MobileIron, it writes:

Mobile Iron always use the CA identifier 'MobileIronSCEP' in all SCEP request. SCEP request from MobileIron always start with "operation=GetCACaps&message=MobileIronSCEP". Therefore the CAs name have to be set to 'MobilIronSCEP' to make it work. 

https://download.primekey.com/docs/EJBCA-Enterprise/6_12_0/SCEP.html

certmonger doesn't hardcode a value but defaults to 0. To set a specific value the SCEP CA must be creates with -i <identifier>

Which means the original bug was a combination of user configuration issue and my misreading of the spec(s).

*** Bug 1842960 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Fix merged into upstream master: 5c21bcbc0c189777b8cad8658c47d2cfb4cbd2e5

Correction to c#9 reproduction. The identifier is also required for GetCACert, so it too will have &message=<identifier> where identifier is 0 by default.

version:
certmonger-0.78.4-14.el7.x86_64


[root@master twe]# /usr/libexec/certmonger/scep-submit -u https://interop.redwax.eu/test/simple/scep -cv
GET "https://interop.redwax.eu/test/simple/scep?operation=GetCACaps&message=0"
response_code = 200
content-type = "text/plain"
code = 0
code_text = "No error"


[root@master twe]#  /usr/libexec/certmonger/scep-submit -u https://interop.redwax.eu/test/simple/scep -cv -i CAIdentifier
GET "https://interop.redwax.eu/test/simple/scep?operation=GetCACaps&message=CAIdentifier"
response_code = 200
content-type = "text/plain"
code = 0
code_text = "No error"
[..]

[root@master twe]#  /usr/libexec/certmonger/scep-submit -u https://interop.redwax.eu/test/simple/scep -C -v 
GET "https://interop.redwax.eu/test/simple/scep?operation=GetCACert&message=0"
response_code = 200
content-type = "application/x-x509-ca-ra-cert"
code = 0
code_text = "No error"
[..]


[root@master twe]#  /usr/libexec/certmonger/scep-submit -u https://interop.redwax.eu/test/simple/scep -C -v -i CAIdentifier
GET "https://interop.redwax.eu/test/simple/scep?operation=GetCACert&message=CAIdentifier"
response_code = 200
content-type = "application/x-x509-ca-ra-cert"
code = 0
code_text = "No error"
[..]


'message=CA-IDENTIFIER' included in the request. Hence based on above observations marking the bug a verified.

I'm running into this issue as well.  Is there anywhere I can get a fixed certmonger package?

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 (certmonger bug fix and enhancement update), 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/RHBA-2020:4009