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Security-sensitive certificate issuance, custom ASN.1 validation, and identity binding warrant final human review.
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What changed in this PR
Extends Fleet’s request certificate API to issue certificates through Google CAS, building on the CA configuration support added in #56435.
Changes:
- Adds Google CAS issuance with cached clients, transient-error handling, and PKCS7 or PEM responses.
- Enforces UPN-only certificate requests, identity binding, and validation of issued certificates.
- Adds service and client tests covering issuance, validation, failures, concurrency, and key rotation.
| File | Description |
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server/mock/googlecas/googlecas.go |
Adds certificate issuance support to the mock service. |
server/fleet/google_cas.go |
Extends the Google CAS service interface with issuance. |
server/fleet/certificate_authorities.go |
Validates and extracts Google CAS issuance settings. |
server/fleet/certificate_authorities_test.go |
Tests settings conversion and missing-field validation. |
ee/server/service/request_certificate.go |
Integrates issuance, UPN validation, and identity checks. |
ee/server/service/request_certificate_test.go |
Tests response formats, CSR restrictions, and identity safeguards. |
ee/server/service/googlecas/googlecas.go |
Implements issuance, client caching, certificate checks, and error mapping. |
ee/server/service/googlecas/googlecas_test.go |
Tests Google API interactions, caching, failures, and certificate rejection. |
changes/52623-google-cas-certificate-authority |
Updates release notes to include certificate issuance. |
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title "Issue certificates from Google CAS" matches the main change: the request certificate API can now issue certificates from a Google Certificate Authority Service (CAS) pool. It is short, spec… Description check The description follows the repository template. It links the related issue ( #52623), explains what the change does, lists the CSR, identity, certificate-check, caching, and error behavior, gives step…Linked Issues check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Out of Scope Changes check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Full details: Title check
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The title "Issue certificates from Google CAS" matches the main change: the request certificate API can now issue certificates from a Google Certificate Authority Service (CAS) pool. It is short, specific, and avoids vague terms. The title does not mention the CSR validation, IdP identity checks, or error handling, but it does not need to cover every detail.
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🟡 Minor · Use ASCII-only comparison for Google CAS host binding. ·
request_certificate.go:362
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse ASCII-only comparison for Google CAS host binding.
For a signed device request without IdP credentials,
verifyRequesterIdentitysetsidentityto the CSR UPN and skips IdP introspection. The host binding then usesstrings.EqualFold. This allowsKate@example.comto match the recordedKate@example.com, although the Google CAS IdP comparison usesequalFoldASCIIand treats them as different UPNs.Use
equalFoldASCIIfor Google CAS host binding only. Preservestrings.EqualFoldfor other CA types.Suggested fix
- if err := svc.verifyHostEndUserBinding(ctx, *bindHostID, identity); err != nil { + if err := svc.verifyHostEndUserBinding(ctx, *bindHostID, identity, upnOnly); err != nil { ... -func (svc *Service) verifyHostEndUserBinding(ctx context.Context, hostID uint, identity string) error { +func (svc *Service) verifyHostEndUserBinding(ctx context.Context, hostID uint, identity string, asciiOnly bool) error { ... - if !strings.EqualFold(endUsers[0].IdpUserName, identity) { + matches := strings.EqualFold(endUsers[0].IdpUserName, identity) + if asciiOnly { + matches = equalFoldASCII(endUsers[0].IdpUserName, identity) + } + if !matches {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @ee/server/service/googlecas/googlecas.go:
- Around line 311-312: Update describeIssueError to classify HTTP 408 alongside
429 and 5xx responses as transient, so RequestCertificate returns the transient
503 path with Retry-After rather than wrapping it as a bad request.
- Around line 178-179: Update the certificate validation after the existing
signing-usage check to reject certificates with an explicit EKU restriction that
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UnknownExtKeyUsage, and certificates with nonzero KeyUsage that omits
DigitalSignature. Keep certificates with absent EKU, ExtKeyUsageAny, or absent
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- Line 362: Update verifyHostEndUserBinding to use equalFoldASCII for Google CAS
host binding while retaining strings.EqualFold for other CA types. Pass the
CA-specific comparison choice from the caller, such as the existing upnOnly
context, and preserve the current host-binding behavior otherwise.
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| if cert.IsCA || cert.KeyUsage&(x509.KeyUsageCertSign|x509.KeyUsageCRLSign) != 0 || slices.Contains(cert.ExtKeyUsage, x509.ExtKeyUsageOCSPSigning) { | ||
| return refuse(ctxerr.New(ctx, "Google CAS issued a certificate that can sign other certificates. Check the CA pool's issuance policy.")) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Require client-authentication usage before returning the certificate.
The validation must reject certificates with an explicit EKU restriction that excludes x509.ExtKeyUsageClientAuth, including certificates restricted only through UnknownExtKeyUsage. It must also reject certificates whose nonzero KeyUsage omits x509.KeyUsageDigitalSignature.
Do not reject unrestricted certificates. An absent EKU, x509.ExtKeyUsageAny, or absent KeyUsage must remain valid.
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--- "a/ee/server/service/googlecas/googlecas.go" +++ "b/ee/server/service/googlecas/googlecas.go" @@ -175,9 +175,14 @@ return refuse(ctxerr.New(ctx, "Google CAS issued a certificate for a different public key than the CSR's")) } // Fleet only asks for client certificates, so one that can sign certificates, CRLs or OCSP responses means the pool added it. if cert.IsCA || cert.KeyUsage&(x509.KeyUsageCertSign|x509.KeyUsageCRLSign) != 0 || slices.Contains(cert.ExtKeyUsage, x509.ExtKeyUsageOCSPSigning) { return refuse(ctxerr.New(ctx, "Google CAS issued a certificate that can sign other certificates. Check the CA pool's issuance policy.")) } + if (len(cert.ExtKeyUsage) > 0 && !slices.Contains(cert.ExtKeyUsage, x509.ExtKeyUsageClientAuth) && !slices.Contains(cert.ExtKeyUsage, x509.ExtKeyUsageAny)) || + (len(cert.ExtKeyUsage) == 0 && len(cert.UnknownExtKeyUsage) > 0) || + (cert.KeyUsage != 0 && cert.KeyUsage&x509.KeyUsageDigitalSignature == 0) { + return refuse(ctxerr.New(ctx, "Google CAS issued a certificate that cannot be used for client authentication. Check the CA pool's issuance policy.")) + } s.logger.InfoContext(ctx, "Google CAS issued a certificate", "certificate_name", issued.Name, "serial", cert.SerialNumber.String()) return cert, nil }
A certificate that passes the current check can be returned successfully but fail Fleet's client-authentication verification. This is a functional-correctness issue, not a demonstrated security issue.
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Leaving this one as is. Which usages the certificate carries is up to the CA pool's issuance policy, and Fleet can't tell what the relying party needs: some RADIUS and VPN setups accept certificates without the client authentication EKU, or with a vendor-specific one. Refusing after issuance would also leave an issued certificate behind on every retry. The check that's there covers what must never reach a host: a certificate that can sign other certificates.
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Second of three PRs for Google CAS: the request certificate API now issues from a Google CAS CA pool. Google refuses certificates that mix the UPN with other SANs, so for this CA type the UPN is the CSR's only allowed SAN and the identity both checks bind to. Related issue: #52623
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| if issuedKey, ok := cert.PublicKey.(interface{ Equal(crypto.PublicKey) bool }); !ok || !issuedKey.Equal(csr.PublicKey) { | ||
| return refuse(ctxerr.New(ctx, "Google CAS issued a certificate for a different public key than the CSR's")) | ||
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| // Fleet only asks for client certificates, so one that can sign certificates, CRLs or OCSP responses means the pool added it. |
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We do not do this validation for other CAs. I wonder if it is needed here. If it is really needed here, then perhaps we need an issue to add this validation to Hydrant EST, etc.?
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The CSR checks already stop a host from asking for CA capabilities, but the pool's issuance policy can still add them. If it did, a host would get a certificate that can sign other certificates, so this check catches that scenario. Same idea for the key check: the private key never leaves the host, so a certificate for any other key is useless. I think it's cheap, so I'd keep it. I'll file an issue to add these checks to the other CAs.
| // email, DNS, URI or IP SANs, so for it the UPN is the identity and the only SAN allowed. That | ||
| // shape is checked on every request, since Google would reject anything else. | ||
| var identity, csrEmail, csrUsername string | ||
| upnOnly := caType == fleet.CATypeGoogleCAS |
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Is this strictness required? Other CAs don't require UPN. Google CAS will only issue a cert if CSR contains UPN?
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Google doesn't need a UPN, but it won't issue one next to an email or DNS SAN (I tried both against my test pool). The other CAs need the UPN plus an email when identity checks are on, and Google rejects that, so here we bind on the UPN alone, like the request script in the docs (#55186). The rest is our call. We don't allow other extensions and we check every request, since Google signs whatever the CSR carries unless the pool's policy filters it out.
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Nit. Can use stdlib uuid here?
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Switched to the standard library's uuid
| // Google issued it, so it stays valid unless revoked; the pool and serial identify it. | ||
| svc.logger.ErrorContext(ctx, "Not returning the certificate Google CAS issued", "ca_pool", ca.CAPoolResourceName(), | ||
| "serial", cert.SerialNumber.String(), "err", err) | ||
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Just curious, do we not log the err already? Or are we effectively double logging here?
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Good catch, RequestCertificate already logs the error. I'll remove the err.
| // checkCSROnlyUPNSubject allows the request script's subject: empty, or a single UTF8String or | ||
| // PrintableString common name of the UPN, optionally after a prefix of letters, digits, spaces, dots, | ||
| // underscores or hyphens and a colon. |
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Why is this check needed? No other CA does this.
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Yes, I think we need it. Google copies the CSR's subject into the certificate as is, and we only verify the UPN, so this keeps the subject naming the same user.
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| // Case-insensitive, as IdPs treat usernames and as SetHostDeviceMapping compares this field. | ||
| if !strings.EqualFold(endUsers[0].IdpUserName, csrEmail) { | ||
| if !strings.EqualFold(endUsers[0].IdpUserName, identity) { |
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Seems like this should be equalFoldASCII for consistency.
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**Related issue:** #52623 1. **PR 1:** types, migration, datastore, service, activities, GitOps (#56435, merged) 2. **PR 2:** request certificate support (#56465) 3. **PR 3 (this one):** frontend ## What Adds Google CAS to the certificate authorities UI. - The Add CA dropdown offers "Google Certificate Authority Service (CAS)" after DigiCert, and the CA list shows that label. - The Google CAS form has Name, Project ID, CA pool, Location and Service account key. It uses `useFormValidation`: errors show when a field loses focus or on submit, and Save stays enabled. The client checks mirror the server's: the characters Google allows in the project, pool and location, a JSON object for the key, and a name not used by another Google CAS CA. - The key is a password field, like the other CA secrets. When editing, it shows masked and is only sent if replaced. An edit sends only the changed fields, so saving without changes does nothing. - For a Google CAS CA, the modals show the server's 4xx errors as it words them, since they name the field or Google setting to fix (for example "The service account can't access the CA pool..."). - The activity feed shows added, edited and deleted Google CAS CAs. Departures from the Figma, for design to confirm: - The Name help text is "Letters, numbers, and underscores only." The Figma copy mentions a profile variable, which doesn't exist for this CA. - The service account key is a password input like the sibling secret fields, not a textarea. ## How I tested ``` yarn eslint <changed files> yarn tsc --noEmit yarn jest frontend/pages/admin/IntegrationsPage/cards/CertificateAuthorities frontend/pages/DashboardPage/cards/ActivityFeed ``` All pass. Manually, with PR 2 and this PR on a local Fleet server and a real Google CAS CA pool (DevOps tier): - Add: each field's validation message, the duplicate name check, and a key Google rejects ("Couldn't authenticate with Google CAS..."). - Edit: fields prefilled with the key masked, a pool the service account can't read is refused with Google's message, and a rename with the masked key sends only the name. - Delete, and the added, edited and deleted activities in the feed. - GitOps mode disables Add, edit and delete. Fleet Free shows the Premium message. The move to `useFormValidation` came after this manual pass. Jest covers it: errors on blur and submit, Save enabled, trimmed values, and the masked key accepted only when editing. Not tested in the UI: adding a CA with a valid key. That path was tested through the API against the real pool; the UI request is the same as the rejected-key case above. # Checklist for submitter ## Testing - [x] Added/updated automated tests - [x] QA'd all new/changed functionality manually ## Frontend - [x] Attached a screenshot or screen recording of each user-visible change. For changes to existing UI, show the before and after. Screenshots: <img width="1092" height="1093" alt="1-add-google-cas-form" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0ac2f8bf-b88c-4de8-b32b-a1f14bb5dec1" /> <img width="1148" height="1062" alt="5-edit-google-cas-form" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cbbc2139-af2d-4f4d-8223-9de9b37bf44d" /> <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> <!-- coderabbit-ai-generated:v1 --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Added Google Certificate Authority Service (CAS) support, including setup and editing forms with field validation and links to Google Cloud guidance. * Google CAS additions, edits, and deletions now appear in the activity feed. * Service account keys remain masked when editing and are only included in updates when changed. * **Improvements** * Google CAS setup displays recognized client-side error details to help identify configuration issues. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
Related issue: #52623
POST /certificate_authorities/:id/request_certificate)What
Lets the request certificate API issue certificates from a Google CAS certificate authority.
return_pem_certificate. The issued certificate must carry the CSR's public key, since the private key stays on the host.CustomerUserNetworkAccess:<UPN>). This is checked on every request, whatever identity checks are configured.Retry-After, so renewal scripts usingcurl --retrywait and retry. Permission, missing-pool and policy rejections return a 400 that names what to check, without the pool's resource names, because the caller may be a host.Reference docs, including the Linux script template, are in #55186 on
docs-v4.95.0.Steps to try it
POST /api/v1/fleet/certificate_authorities/<id>/request_certificatewith the CSR, the IdP introspection URL, client ID and token, and"return_pem_certificate": true. The response holds a certificate from the pool withUPN:alice@example.com.How I tested
All pass. The client tests stand in for Google's token endpoint and the CAS API with
httptest, including concurrent requests sharing one client (-race).Manually, against a real Google CAS CA pool (DevOps tier) and a local Fleet server:
REQUEST_CERTIFICATE_API_TOKENsecret variable, as a script-only package installed twice (the second install replaces the certificate), and through Linux setup experience on a new host.token_uripoints elsewhere never contacts it.Not tested: device-signed requests against a real host identity certificate (they need a TPM-backed host; unit tests cover the host binding), and Hydrant, EST and NDES against real servers (their existing tests pass).
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