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Part of #1301. The in-tree clients are covered. protect-ffi is not, and is listed as a follow-up below (#1305).

Summary

On Linux, rustls-platform-verifier 0.6.2 runs webpki over the distro bundle and checks no revocation. The Sectigo cross-signs of the eight compromised eMudhra intermediates chain to a Sectigo root that is still in that bundle, so both forms of each intermediate were trusted by our reqwest clients.

  • New stack_auth::tls module (native and http only). client_config(http2: bool) -> Result<rustls::ClientConfig, rustls::Error> returns the config the bundled clients pass to reqwest::ClientBuilder::tls_backend_preconfigured. Its SpkiBlocklistVerifier calls the platform verifier first. It then rejects the chain with CertificateError::Revoked if the end entity or any presented intermediate has a SubjectPublicKeyInfo SHA-256 on the compiled-in list. Signature checks, schemes, raw-public-key handling and root hints are all left to the platform verifier. A presented certificate that doesn't parse is rejected (BadEncoding), because its key can't be checked.
  • Presented certificates only. rustls hands the verifier the certificates the server sent, not the chain the platform built. On Linux the platform verifier never fetches intermediates, so that covers every chain. On macOS and Windows the OS verifier may fetch or reuse an intermediate the server left out; there the OS vendor's own distrust is what applies.
  • The blocklist has 8 entries, which cover all 16 certificates: each original and its Sectigo cross-sign share one key. The two code-signing CAs are included because the source and Node both list them. The source URL, read date and derivation are recorded next to the list.
  • ALPN. A preconfigured rustls backend gets no ALPN from reqwest, so the config sets it. stack-auth offers http/1.1. stack-kms also offers h2 when its http2 feature is on, which is also the only time its reqwest can speak HTTP/2. One side effect: when the http2 feature is turned on through feature unification, stack-auth's own client now offers http/1.1 only.
  • Crypto provider is picked the same way reqwest picks it: the process default if one is installed, otherwise aws-lc-rs.
  • Location. The verifier lives in stack-auth, which stack-kms already depends on. That adds no dependency cycle and no new crate. rustls, rustls-platform-verifier and rustls-webpki are new direct, optional, native-only dependencies, at the versions reqwest already resolves. Cargo.lock only gains dependency-list lines and no new packages; packages/stack-auth/fuzz/Cargo.lock gets the same lines.

Clients covered

Client Where Covered
stack-auth ReqwestTransport (production http_client) packages/stack-auth/src/transport.rs yes
stack-kms HttpConnection packages/stack-kms/src/connection/http.rs yes
@cipherstash/auth napi binding, and stack-encrypt with http through the two above yes
@cipherstash/auth WASM build, stack-kms on wasm32 runtime fetch n/a (the runtime's TLS applies)
Go WASI guests host transport, no reqwest n/a
stack-auth's test-only http_client (test-utils) plain-HTTP mocks left as it was (see the .cargo/mutants.toml equivalence note)

stack-kms's ConnectionInitError keeps its code and its public From<reqwest::Error>. Its private source is now an enum, so it can also carry the TLS-config rustls::Error.

Fails closed. If client_config fails, stack-auth's production http_client panics with the error rather than falling back to a client without the blocklist. It fails exactly where reqwest's own TLS setup fails, because both build the same platform verifier (on Linux, that happens when no system CA certificates can be loaded), so this is the same condition under which reqwest::Client::new() already panicked before this change. stack-kms returns the error as ConnectionInitError.

Not covered (follow-up)

  • protect-ffi (and so @cipherstash/stack on Node) depends on stack-auth = "=0.42.3" and cipherstash-client = "=0.42.3" from crates.io. cipherstash-client builds its own reqwest client in cipherstash/cipherstash-suite. Covering it needs two things: a stack-auth release containing this change with protect-ffi's pins moved to it, and the same wrapper applied in cipherstash-client's client construction. Tracked in protect-ffi: apply the eMudhra SPKI blocklist to @cipherstash/stack's HTTP client #1305.
  • eql-bindings' stack-encrypt feature resolves stack-encrypt, and through it stack-kms, from crates.io. It picks this up only once those crates are released.

How the SPKI hashes were obtained

  1. They come from the spki_sha256 field of each intermediate in https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/affected-certificates.json, read on 2026-10-20 and treated as data only. The file's sha256 fields are whole-certificate fingerprints and are not used.
  2. They were cross-checked one by one, matched by CA name, against the byte arrays in Node's blocklist (tls: reject chains containing blocked public keys nodejs/node#66871, src/crypto/crypto_context.cc). All 8 match. The hex comments in that diff are the originals' certificate fingerprints, not SPKI hashes.
  3. The certificates themselves could not be fetched from crt.sh, because egress to it is blocked in this environment. The hashes therefore were not re-derived from the certificate bytes, and a reviewer may want to do that. Command: openssl x509 -in ca.pem -noout -pubkey | openssl pkey -pubin -outform der | sha256sum.
  4. The verifier hashes the full DER SubjectPublicKeyInfo, outer SEQUENCE included, using webpki's subject_public_key_info(). A test shows this matches openssl's hash for the same key.

Tests

The tests use a throwaway test PKI (packages/stack-auth/src/tls/testdata/*.der, P-256, made with openssl; no private keys are committed). They cover:

  • A real WebPkiServerVerifier trusting the test root: a clean chain is accepted. A blocked intermediate is rejected as Revoked, and so is a blocked end entity. A refusal from the inner verifier (UnknownIssuer) is returned unchanged.
  • A blocked key in a later intermediate position is still rejected.
  • A certificate that doesn't parse is rejected.
  • The SPKI hash matches openssl's.
  • The list is exactly the 8 published names and hex hashes, written separately from the byte arrays.
  • The other verifier methods delegate to the inner verifier.
  • ALPN follows http2.
  • reqwest accepts the config for both http2 values, so a rustls version mismatch would fail the test rather than fall through.

Verification (local, pinned Rust 1.94.1)

  • cargo nextest run --locked -p stack-auth -p stack-kms -p stack-auth-node --all-features: 437 passed
  • cargo test --locked --workspace --all-features --no-fail-fast: all pass. The stack-encrypt trybuild ui test fails under the container's stable 1.97 and passes under 1.94.1 (it snapshots compiler diagnostics).
  • cargo test --doc -p stack-auth -p stack-kms --all-features: pass
  • cargo clippy --locked --no-deps --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings: clean. Also clean: -p stack-auth -p stack-kms --no-default-features, and stack-kms with default features.
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check: clean
  • RUSTDOCFLAGS=-D warnings cargo doc -p stack-auth -p stack-kms --no-deps --all-features: clean
  • cargo check --target wasm32-wasip1 --no-default-features for stack-auth and stack-kms: OK, and cargo tree shows no rustls there. cargo check --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p stack-auth-wasm: OK
  • cargo metadata --locked: OK for the root workspace, both Go guests and the three fuzz crates
  • cargo mutants -p stack-auth -p stack-encrypt --in-diff: 19 mutants, 11 caught, 8 unviable, 0 missed

Changesets and skills

  • .changeset/auth-emudhra-spki-blocklist.md: @cipherstash/auth patch, as require-auth-npm-changeset.yml requires.
  • The crate CHANGELOGs are generated from this commit at release.
  • Skills: no public JS API, CLI command or user-facing workflow changed, so no skills/*/SKILL.md needed an update.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security

    • Native HTTPS connections now reject TLS certificate chains containing eight compromised eMudhra intermediate CA keys, including affected Sectigo cross-signs.
    • Certificate validation continues using the platform verifier, with blocked keys treated as revoked where platform revocation checks are unavailable.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved TLS configuration and error reporting for native HTTP clients.
    • WASM behavior remains unchanged and continues using fetch-based TLS handling.
    • Native HTTP/2 connections now receive consistent TLS configuration.

…A keys

The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CAs were reported compromised
on 2026-10-17. Each intermediate also has a Sectigo cross-sign that chains to
a Sectigo root still in distro bundles. On Linux, rustls-platform-verifier
reads that bundle through rustls-native-certs and checks no revocation, so
both forms were still trusted by the reqwest clients in stack-auth and
stack-kms.

`stack_auth::tls::client_config` builds the rustls `ClientConfig` those
clients now hand to `tls_backend_preconfigured`. It keeps the platform
verifier for every check and then refuses, as `CertificateError::Revoked`,
a chain where any presented certificate's SubjectPublicKeyInfo SHA-256 is
on a compiled-in blocklist. The list holds the 8 keys behind the 16
certificates (an original and its cross-sign share a key). The hashes are
the `spki_sha256` fields of
https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/affected-certificates.json, read on
2026-10-20, and they match Node's blocklist (nodejs/node#66871) entry for
entry.

A preconfigured backend gets no ALPN from reqwest, so the config sets it:
`http/1.1` for stack-auth, and `h2` too for stack-kms under its `http2`
feature. Native only: on wasm32, reqwest uses the runtime's `fetch`.

protect-ffi is not covered. It takes stack-auth =0.42.3 and
cipherstash-client from crates.io, and cipherstash-client builds its own
client outside this repository.

Part of #1301.

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📝 Walkthrough

Native HTTP clients now use shared native TLS configuration with platform verification and an eight-key eMudhra SPKI blocklist. TLS setup failures no longer fall back in stack-auth and are returned by stack-kms. WASM behavior remains unchanged.

Changes: Native TLS configuration and clients

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared TLS configuration
Cargo.toml, packages/stack-auth/Cargo.toml, packages/stack-auth/src/lib.rs, packages/stack-auth/src/tls.rs
Adds Rustls dependencies and a native tls module. The module defines eight blocked eMudhra SPKI hashes and builds TLS configuration with the platform verifier.
SPKI verification and tests
packages/stack-auth/src/tls.rs
Adds a verifier that delegates platform certificate checks, rejects malformed or blocked certificates, and delegates other verifier methods. Tests cover blocklist hashes, certificate chains, delegation, ALPN, and Reqwest compatibility.
HTTP client integration
packages/stack-auth/src/transport.rs, packages/stack-kms/Cargo.toml, packages/stack-kms/src/connection/http.rs, .changeset/auth-emudhra-spki-blocklist.md
Configures native stack-auth and stack-kms HTTP clients with the shared TLS configuration. Stack-auth panics when TLS setup or client construction fails. Stack-kms returns TLS configuration failures through ConnectionInitError.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AuthTransport as stack-auth transport
  participant KmsInitializer as stack-kms HTTP initializer
  participant ClientConfig as stack_auth::tls::client_config
  participant PlatformVerifier as rustls-platform-verifier
  participant BlocklistVerifier as SpkiBlocklistVerifier
  AuthTransport->>ClientConfig: Request TLS configuration
  KmsInitializer->>ClientConfig: Request TLS configuration with HTTP/2 setting
  ClientConfig->>PlatformVerifier: Create platform verifier
  ClientConfig->>BlocklistVerifier: Wrap platform verifier
  BlocklistVerifier->>PlatformVerifier: Delegate certificate validation
  PlatformVerifier-->>BlocklistVerifier: Return validation result
  BlocklistVerifier-->>AuthTransport: Return TLS configuration
  BlocklistVerifier-->>KmsInitializer: Return TLS configuration or error
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Source: /code-review medium plus company-skills:cross-check-review-findings, run against head a1765f1. At review time the PR had no existing review threads or review bodies. The only existing comments were from changeset-bot and a CodeRabbit status comment, so there was nothing to de-duplicate.

Critical / blocking: none.

Findings (1 new, minor, not blocking):

  • transport.rs:515: the Err arm of client_config falls back to an unprotected reqwest client (fail-open). Suggest failing closed. See the inline comment.

Checked and found fine:

  • The SPKI hash covers the full DER SubjectPublicKeyInfo.
  • The verifier calls the inner verifier first, then checks every presented certificate.
  • ALPN follows the http2 feature.
  • The test-utils feature enters stack-auth only through dev-dependencies, so release builds are unaffected.
  • A changeset is present, and no skills need updating.

Not verified (non-blocking, as the author notes):

  • The 8 SPKI hashes were not re-derived from certificate bytes. I could not fetch the source JSON from this environment.
  • I did not build or run the tests.
  • A maintainer should run the openssl derivation on the certificates before merge.

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Comment thread packages/stack-auth/src/transport.rs Outdated
…e built

The bundled client fell back to reqwest's default verifier when
`tls::client_config` or the preconfigured build failed, which would trust
the compromised eMudhra CAs. Panic instead, as `Client::new()` already did
in the same places.

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Mutation testing (cargo-mutants, --in-diff, stack-auth + stack-encrypt)

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Review comments at @packages/stack-auth/src/tls.rs:
- Around line 204-212: Update blocked to extract SubjectPublicKeyInfo using a
minimal DER walk instead of webpki::EndEntityCert::try_from, so valid
platform-accepted v1 certificates and certificates with unknown critical
extensions can be screened. Return BadEncoding only when the DER extraction
fails, then compute the existing SHA-256 digest and perform the blocklist lookup
unchanged.
- Around line 192-194: Update the TLS certificate-check documentation near the
presented-certificate verification logic to remove the claim that servers must
send blocked intermediates. Document that platform verifiers may obtain omitted
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fn blocked(&self, cert: &CertificateDer<'_>) -> Result<Option<&'static BlockedSpki>, Error> {
let parsed = webpki::EndEntityCert::try_from(cert)
.map_err(|_| Error::InvalidCertificate(CertificateError::BadEncoding))?;
let digest: [u8; 32] = Sha256::digest(parsed.subject_public_key_info().as_ref()).into();
Ok(self
.blocklist
.iter()
.find(|entry| entry.spki_sha256 == digest))
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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#!/bin/bash
fd -t d 'rustls-webpki-0.103' ~/.cargo/registry/src 2>/dev/null | head -1 | while read d; do
  rg -n -C3 'fn version3|UnsupportedCertVersion|UnsupportedCriticalExtension' "$d/src/cert.rs" "$d/src/der.rs"
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printf '%s\n' '--- tls.rs ---'
nl -ba packages/stack-auth/src/tls.rs | sed -n '1,280p'
printf '%s\n' '--- stack-auth manifest references ---'
rg -n -C3 --glob 'Cargo.toml' --glob 'Cargo.lock' -e 'webpki|rustls|rustls-webpki|rustls-pki-types|sha2' packages/stack-auth Cargo.toml Cargo.lock
printf '%s\n' '--- imports and call sites ---'
rg -n -C4 --glob '*.rs' -e 'EndEntityCert|client_config|BlockedSpki|struct Blocklist|fn blocked' packages/stack-auth packages/stack-kms
printf '%s\n' '--- available local webpki sources ---'
find ~/.cargo/registry/src -maxdepth 3 -type d \( -name 'webpki-*' -o -name 'rustls-webpki-*' \) -print 2>/dev/null | head -20

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if command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  curl -fsSL "$url" -o "$tmp/cert.rs"
else
  python3 - "$url" "$tmp/cert.rs" <<'PY'
import sys, urllib.request
urllib.request.urlretrieve(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])
PY
fi
printf '%s\n' '--- upstream source URL ---' "$url"
printf '%s\n' '--- parser symbols ---'
rg -n -C5 -e 'fn version3|UnsupportedCertVersion|UnsupportedCriticalExtension|from_der|critical' "$tmp/cert.rs" || true
printf '%s\n' '--- EndEntityCert conversion ---'
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import sys, urllib.request
urllib.request.urlretrieve(
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    sys.argv[1],
)
PY
fi
mkdir "$tmp/src"
tar -xzf "$archive" -C "$tmp/src"
root="$tmp/src/rustls-webpki-0.103.15"
printf '%s\n' '--- crate source ---'
rg -n -C5 -e 'fn version3|UnsupportedCertVersion|UnsupportedCriticalExtension|from_der|critical' "$root/src/cert.rs" "$root/src/der.rs" || true
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curl -fsSL 'https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/rustls-platform-verifier/0.6.2/download' -o "$archive"
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Extract SPKI without applying webpki certificate-acceptance rules.

webpki 0.103.15 allows only X.509 v3 certificates during normal parsing and rejects unknown critical extensions. verify_server_cert applies this parser to the end entity and every supplied intermediate after the platform verifier succeeds. Therefore, a chain accepted by the platform verifier can still fail here with BadEncoding when a presented extra certificate is v1 or has an unknown critical extension. The blocklist needs only the SubjectPublicKeyInfo bytes. Use a minimal DER walk to extract them and return BadEncoding only when that walk fails. This preserves rejection of malformed DER without coupling blocklist screening to webpki's certificate-validation rules.

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Review comment at @packages/stack-auth/src/tls.rs around lines 204 - 212:
Update blocked to extract SubjectPublicKeyInfo using a minimal DER walk instead
of webpki::EndEntityCert::try_from, so valid platform-accepted v1 certificates
and certificates with unknown critical extensions can be screened. Return
BadEncoding only when the DER extraction fails, then compute the existing
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Leaving this as it is. The failure only happens when a server presents a certificate that the platform verifier accepts but webpki's parser rejects. That means a v1 certificate, or one with an unknown critical extension, sitting in the TLS chain of a CipherStash endpoint (ZeroKMS, auth). Those chains are standard v3 Web PKI. The certificates on the blocklist are also fixed v3 certificates whose bytes nobody can alter without breaking their signature, so the parser change wouldn't catch anything new. Hand-writing a DER walker would add parsing code to the TLS path and, as far as I can see, would only prevent a hypothetical outage. If such a certificate did show up, the connection fails closed with BadEncoding rather than failing open. I've passed the call to the maintainer.


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@tobyhede Understood. This is a fail-closed compatibility risk, not a blocklist bypass. Your endpoint constraints make the parser mismatch hypothetical for the expected chains. I won’t press for a custom DER walker; the implementation decision remains with the maintainer.

Thanks for clarifying the endpoint constraints.


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Recommendation: 🟡 merge after changes

Nothing must change before merge. One optional test improvement below.

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  • Dropped: the claim that blocked() should treat an unparseable certificate as not blocked (packages/stack-auth/src/tls.rs:216). The refusal is a deliberate fail-closed choice. On macOS and Windows the OS verifier and rustls-webpki may parse a certificate differently. A certificate the OS reads as a blocked key could fail in webpki, so skipping it would let it pass. The suggested fix is not safe.
  • The eight SPKI hashes were not re-derived from certificate bytes (the author says crt.sh was blocked). A maintainer should run the openssl derivation from the PR description before merge.
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Approved

Reviewed at a1b4c44 with a focus on whether a holder of the compromised keys can still get a TLS connection out of the bundled clients.

Verified

  • The 8 SPKI hashes are correct. I compared them byte for byte against two independent implementations: Node's merged list (nodejs/node#66871, kBlockedSPKIs) and Go's distrustedSPKIHashes in crypto/x509/verify.go (golang/go@7f86f957, CVE-2026-111943). All 8 match both. I could not re-derive them from the certificate bytes (crt.sh returned 502), but three lists that agree, written by three teams, is sufficient.
  • The hash form is the same as Go's and Node's. webpki's subject_public_key_info() wraps the SPKI contents back in the outer SEQUENCE (rustls-webpki 0.103 cert.rs:234), so the digest is over the full DER SPKI, the same bytes as Go's RawSubjectPublicKeyInfo and Node's i2d_X509_PUBKEY. I recomputed the test PKI's INTERMEDIATE_SPKI and LEAF_SPKI with openssl: they match.
  • The wrapped verifier is the one reqwest uses. reqwest 0.13's tls_backend_preconfigured downcasts to rustls::ClientConfig and installs it as BuiltRustls with no changes. One rustls in the lock (0.23.45 on both main and this branch), so the downcast cannot miss.
  • The shipped @cipherstash/auth binary gets the protected client. test-utils is a dev-dependency feature only; cargo tree -p stack-auth-node -e no-dev,features resolves stack-auth with http alone, so the plain http_client is not compiled into the release artifact (resolver 2).
  • Fails closed. Both failure paths in transport.rs now panic, and stack-kms returns the error. There is no fallback to reqwest's default verifier.
  • ALPN is safe. stack-kms's http2 feature is reqwest/http2, so h2 is offered only when reqwest can speak it.
  • Keying on the SPKI covers the Sectigo cross-signs and any sub-CA an attacker signs with a compromised key: on Linux, webpki builds the path only from presented certificates, so the compromised intermediate must be in the chain and is seen.
  • CI green, including mutants (0 missed).

Not blocking

  1. @cipherstash/stack on Linux stays exposed after this merges. protect-ffi pins cipherstash-client = "=0.42.3" from crates.io, which builds its own reqwest with the unwrapped platform verifier. This PR does not close #1301 for the main product. Please open a tracked follow-up (release stack-auth, apply the wrapper in cipherstash-client, move protect-ffi's pins) and link it from #1301 before that issue is closed.
  2. tls.rs says "Node's blocklist makes the same choice" about checking only presented certificates. Node's callback checks the chain OpenSSL built (X509_STORE_CTX_get0_chain), and Go filters the built chains too. rustls gives this wrapper no built chain, so the choice here is forced, not shared. Wording only.

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Thanks, @freshtonic. I've done both of your non-blocking points:

  1. The protect-ffi / cipherstash-client gap is tracked in protect-ffi: apply the eMudhra SPKI blocklist to @cipherstash/stack's HTTP client #1305 and linked from Rust TLS: block the compromised eMudhra intermediates by SPKI hash in our reqwest/rustls verifier #1301, which stays open until it ships.
  2. 648ec65 fixes the wording. It now says Node and Go check the chain their verifier built, and that rustls gives this wrapper no built chain, so it can't. The same commit adds the http2 = true case to reqwest_accepts_the_config, from the bot's optional finding.

If that push dismissed your approval, it will need re-approving.


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Approved, pretty straight forward.

Merge when ready, the additional tests are a nice to have.

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