Werk #16225: Ignore certificates with negative serial numbers

Component

Setup

Title

Ignore certificates with negative serial numbers

Date

Nov 24, 2023

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Incompatible - Manual interaction might be required

Checkmk versions & editions

2.3.0b1 Not yet released	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.3.0b1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

X509 certificates contain a serial number which is used for various purposes.

Since RFC5280 (May 2008) certificates must be a positive integer. There used to be certificates with negative serial numbers which were accepted. Our underlying libraries start to deprecate the support for these certificates, therefore Checkmk now deems them invalid.

Please note that these certificates are very uncommon. If Checkmk encounters such a certificate it will log it to var/log/web.log.

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