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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 11, 2024

Weak Cipher in client certificate

Hi IBM Team,


One of our vendors are trying get connection to Sterling OMS using CURL command, they do have the certificate from DOM QA2 environment.


However when they try to get the connection, they are getting below issue.



$ openssl pkcs12 -info -in qa2.p12 -noout


Enter Import Password:


MAC: sha1, Iteration 100000


MAC length: 20, salt length: 20


PKCS7 Data


Shrouded Keybag: pbeWithSHA1And3-KeyTripleDES-CBC, Iteration 50000


PKCS7 Encrypted data: pbeWithSHA1And40BitRC2-CBC, Iteration 50000



The root cause of this is a weaker cipher used in the client certificate provided for accessing OMS.



They can run Node with legacy SSL support to get around this issue but I would recommend investigating a stronger cipher for the OMS TLS / HTTPS implementation.


This is happening in DOM QA2, could you please investigate on this issue as soon as possible.

What is your industry? Retail
How will this idea be used?

IBM PMR: TS014940181

IBM Team asked us to create an idea request as this is not available in the product.

  • Admin
    Sampson Wong
    Reply
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    Feb 5, 2024

    The reason for the mismatch is due to openSSL version incompatibility. OpenSSL 1.x and openSSL 3.x. For the meantime due to a tech stack upgrade dependency IBM supports only openSSL 1.X so the client is using a newer openSSL 3.x they will be required to use --legacy option when generating certificate.

    Once IBM performs the java tech stack upgrade, the client can remove the legacy flag and run in full openSSL3 mode. (Exact date of the java upgrade, TBD)

    Marking this not in consideration.