OSSL_CMP_{validate_msg,CTX_new}.pod: add warning notes on OSSL_CMP_OP…

…T_PERMIT_TA_IN_EXTRACERTS_FOR_IR Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Neil Horman <[email protected]> (Merged from openssl#23814) (cherry picked from commit 40948c4)
siemens · Jun 17, 2024 · b38ebb3 · b38ebb3
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diff --git a/doc/man3/OSSL_CMP_CTX_new.pod b/doc/man3/OSSL_CMP_CTX_new.pod
@@ -340,6 +340,11 @@ RFC 4210.
 
         Allow retrieving a trust anchor from extraCerts and using that
         to validate the certificate chain of an IP message.
+        This is a quirk option added to support 3GPP TS 33.310.
+
+        Note that using this option is dangerous as the certificate obtained
+        this way has not been authenticated (at least not at CMP level).
+        Taking it over as a trust anchor implements trust-on-first-use (TOFU).
 
 =back
 

diff --git a/doc/man3/OSSL_CMP_validate_msg.pod b/doc/man3/OSSL_CMP_validate_msg.pod
@@ -42,11 +42,14 @@ using any trust store set via L<OSSL_CMP_CTX_set0_trusted(3)>.
 
 If the option OSSL_CMP_OPT_PERMIT_TA_IN_EXTRACERTS_FOR_IR was set by calling
 L<OSSL_CMP_CTX_set_option(3)>, for an Initialization Response (IP) message
-any self-issued certificate from the I<msg> extraCerts field may also be used
-as trust anchor for the path verification of an acceptable cert if it can be
+any self-issued certificate from the I<msg> extraCerts field may be used
+as a trust anchor for the path verification of an 'acceptable' cert if it can be
 used also to validate the issued certificate returned in the IP message. This is
 according to TS 33.310 [Network Domain Security (NDS); Authentication Framework
 (AF)] document specified by the The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).
+Note that using this option is dangerous as the certificate obtained this way
+has not been authenticated (at least not at CMP level).
+Taking it over as a trust anchor implements trust-on-first-use (TOFU).
 
 Any cert that has been found as described above is cached and tried first when
 validating the signatures of subsequent messages in the same transaction.