Validate wildcard TLS certificates correctly (#24829)

Validate wildcard certificates as specified in RFC 6125.

In particular, `*.example.com` should match `foo.example.com` but
NOT `bar.foo.example.com` as it previously did.
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@ -344,45 +344,73 @@ pub const Parsed = struct {
// component or component fragment. E.g., *.a.com matches foo.a.com but // component or component fragment. E.g., *.a.com matches foo.a.com but
// not bar.foo.a.com. f*.com matches foo.com but not bar.com. // not bar.foo.a.com. f*.com matches foo.com but not bar.com.
fn checkHostName(host_name: []const u8, dns_name: []const u8) bool { fn checkHostName(host_name: []const u8, dns_name: []const u8) bool {
// Empty strings should not match
if (host_name.len == 0 or dns_name.len == 0) return false;
// RFC 6125 Section 6.4.1: Exact match (case-insensitive)
if (std.ascii.eqlIgnoreCase(dns_name, host_name)) { if (std.ascii.eqlIgnoreCase(dns_name, host_name)) {
return true; // exact match return true; // exact match
} }
var it_host = std.mem.splitScalar(u8, host_name, '.'); // RFC 6125 Section 6.4.3: Wildcard certificates
var it_dns = std.mem.splitScalar(u8, dns_name, '.'); // Wildcard must be leftmost label and in the form "*.rest.of.domain"
if (dns_name.len >= 3 and mem.startsWith(u8, dns_name, "*.")) {
const wildcard_suffix = dns_name[2..];
const len_match = while (true) { // No additional wildcards allowed in the suffix
const host = it_host.next(); if (mem.indexOf(u8, wildcard_suffix, "*") != null) return false;
const dns = it_dns.next();
if (host == null or dns == null) { // Find the first dot in hostname to split first label from rest
break host == null and dns == null; const dot_pos = mem.indexOf(u8, host_name, ".") orelse return false;
// Wildcard matches exactly one label, so compare the rest
const host_suffix = host_name[dot_pos + 1 ..];
// Match suffixes (case-insensitive per RFC 6125)
return std.ascii.eqlIgnoreCase(wildcard_suffix, host_suffix);
} }
// If not a wildcard and they dont
// match then there is no match.
if (mem.eql(u8, dns.?, "*") == false and std.ascii.eqlIgnoreCase(dns.?, host.?) == false) {
return false; return false;
} }
}; };
// If the components are not the same test "Parsed.checkHostName RFC 6125 compliance" {
// length then there is no match.
return len_match;
}
};
test "Parsed.checkHostName" {
const expectEqual = std.testing.expectEqual; const expectEqual = std.testing.expectEqual;
// Exact match tests
try expectEqual(true, Parsed.checkHostName("ziglang.org", "ziglang.org")); try expectEqual(true, Parsed.checkHostName("ziglang.org", "ziglang.org"));
try expectEqual(true, Parsed.checkHostName("ziglang.org", "Ziglang.org")); // case insensitive
try expectEqual(true, Parsed.checkHostName("ZIGLANG.ORG", "ziglang.org")); // case insensitive
// Valid wildcard matches
try expectEqual(true, Parsed.checkHostName("bar.ziglang.org", "*.ziglang.org")); try expectEqual(true, Parsed.checkHostName("bar.ziglang.org", "*.ziglang.org"));
try expectEqual(true, Parsed.checkHostName("BAR.ziglang.org", "*.Ziglang.ORG")); // case insensitive
// RFC 6125: Wildcard matches exactly one label
try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("foo.bar.ziglang.org", "*.ziglang.org")); try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("foo.bar.ziglang.org", "*.ziglang.org"));
try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("ziglang.org", "*.ziglang.org")); // no empty match
// RFC 6125: No partial wildcards allowed
try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("ziglang.org", "zig*.org")); try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("ziglang.org", "zig*.org"));
try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("lang.org", "zig*.org")); try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("ziglang.org", "*lang.org"));
// host name check should be case insensitive try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("ziglang.org", "zi*ng.org"));
try expectEqual(true, Parsed.checkHostName("ziglang.org", "Ziglang.org"));
try expectEqual(true, Parsed.checkHostName("bar.ziglang.org", "*.Ziglang.ORG")); // RFC 6125: No multiple wildcards
try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("foo.bar.org", "*.*.org"));
// RFC 6125: Wildcard must be in leftmost label
try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("foo.bar.org", "foo.*.org"));
// Single label hostnames should not match wildcards
try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("localhost", "*.local"));
try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("localhost", "*.localhost"));
// Edge cases
try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("", ""));
try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("example.com", ""));
try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("", "*.example.com"));
try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("example.com", "*"));
try expectEqual(false, Parsed.checkHostName("example.com", "*."));
} }
pub const ParseError = der.Element.ParseError || ParseVersionError || ParseTimeError || ParseEnumError || ParseBitStringError; pub const ParseError = der.Element.ParseError || ParseVersionError || ParseTimeError || ParseEnumError || ParseBitStringError;