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SSL Certificate Chain Not Sorted

info Nessus Plugin ID 56471

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Synopsis

The X.509 certificate chain used by this service contains certificates that aren't in order.

Description

At least one of the X.509 certificates sent by the remote host is not in order. Some certificate authorities publish certificate bundles that are in descending instead of ascending order, which is incorrect according to RFC 4346, Section 7.4.2.

Some SSL implementations, often those found in embedded devices, cannot handle unordered certificate chains.

Solution

Reorder the certificates in the certificate chain.

See Also

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4346.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: Info

ID: 56471

File Name: ssl_unordered_certs.nasl

Version: Revision: 1.3

Type: remote

Family: General

Published: 10/12/2011

Updated: 1/17/2012

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: SSL/Chain/Unordered