Certificate_unknown Error

#1

Getting the below error in Elastic 7.5.1 and readonly rest 1.19.0 version

[2020-02-14T04:58:29,825][WARN ][o.e.t.TcpTransport ] [es-data] exception caught on transport layer [Netty4TcpChannel{localAddress=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:9300, remoteAddress=/10.10.10.1:52806}], closing connection
io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: certificate_unknown
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:473) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelInputClosed(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:406) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelInputClosed(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:373) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelInactive(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:356) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.channelInactive(SslHandler.java:1078) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:257) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:243) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:236) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.channelInactive(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1417) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:257) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:243) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelInactive(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:913) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel$AbstractUnsafe$8.run(AbstractChannel.java:819) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.util.concurrent.AbstractEventExecutor.safeExecute(AbstractEventExecutor.java:163) [netty-common-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor.runAllTasks(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:510) [netty-common-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:518) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$6.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:1050) [netty-common-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.util.internal.ThreadExecutorMap$2.run(ThreadExecutorMap.java:74) [netty-common-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:1.8.0_77]
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: certificate_unknown
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:208) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.fatal(SSLEngineImpl.java:1666) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.fatal(SSLEngineImpl.java:1634) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.recvAlert(SSLEngineImpl.java:1800) ~[?:?]

Below is the elasticsearch.yml
cluster.name: test-stg
node.data: true
node.master: true
action.destructive_requires_name: true
path.data: /app/elasticsearch/data/ESNode
path.logs: /app/elasticsearch/logs/ESNode
action.auto_create_index: true
bootstrap.memory_lock: false
#certificate_verification: true
http.type: ssl_netty4
transport.type: ror_ssl_internode
http.port: 9200
network.host: eth0
network.bind_host: host1
network.publish_host: host1
#transport.host: localhost
transport.tcp.port: 9300
cluster.routing.allocation.awareness.attributes: rack_fd,rack_ud
cluster.routing.allocation.awareness.force.rack_fd.values: ‘2,1,0’
cluster.routing.allocation.awareness.force.rack_ud.values: ‘2,1,0’
node.attr.rack_fd: ‘0’
node.attr.rack_ud: ‘0’
discovery.seed_hosts: host1,host2,host3

Readonlyrest.yml
readonlyrest:
access_control_rules:
- name: “Require HTTP Basic Auth”
type: allow
auth_key: user:password
ssl:
keystore_file: “elastic-ssl.keystore.jks”
keystore_pass: secret
key_pass: secret
client_authentication: true
ssl_internode:
keystore_file: “elastic-ssl.keystore.jks”
keystore_pass: secret
key_pass: secret
certificate_verification: true

#2

The issue is my certificate has only hostname in it. But with the error message it tries to look for ip or it looks for both hostname and ip and it is failing.

Below is the Error

[2020-02-14T05:23:02,457][WARN ][o.e.t.TcpTransport ] [es-data] exception caught on transport layer [Netty4TcpChannel{localAddress=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:40800, remoteAddress=host1/10.10.10.1:9300}], closing connection
io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: General SSLEngine problem
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:473) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:281) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:374) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:360) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:352) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.channelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1422) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:374) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:360) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:931) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:163) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:700) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysPlain(NioEventLoop.java:600) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeys(NioEventLoop.java:554) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:514) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$6.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:1050) [netty-common-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.util.internal.ThreadExecutorMap$2.run(ThreadExecutorMap.java:74) [netty-common-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:1.8.0_77]
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: General SSLEngine problem
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.checkThrown(Handshaker.java:1431) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.checkTaskThrown(SSLEngineImpl.java:535) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.readNetRecord(SSLEngineImpl.java:813) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.unwrap(SSLEngineImpl.java:781) ~[?:?]
at javax.net.ssl.SSLEngine.unwrap(SSLEngine.java:624) ~[?:1.8.0_77]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler$SslEngineType$3.unwrap(SslHandler.java:280) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.unwrap(SslHandler.java:1332) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decodeJdkCompatible(SslHandler.java:1227) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decode(SslHandler.java:1274) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.decodeRemovalReentryProtection(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:503) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:442) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
… 16 more
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: General SSLEngine problem
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.fatal(SSLEngineImpl.java:1728) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:304) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:296) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1509) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(ClientHandshaker.java:216) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Handshaker.java:979) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker$1.run(Handshaker.java:919) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker$1.run(Handshaker.java:916) ~[?:?]
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_77]
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker$DelegatedTask.run(Handshaker.java:1369) ~[?:?]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.runAllDelegatedTasks(SslHandler.java:1502) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.runDelegatedTasks(SslHandler.java:1516) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.unwrap(SslHandler.java:1400) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decodeJdkCompatible(SslHandler.java:1227) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decode(SslHandler.java:1274) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.decodeRemovalReentryProtection(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:503) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:442) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
… 16 more
Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:387) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:292) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:260) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.validate(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:324) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:281) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:136) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1496) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(ClientHandshaker.java:216) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Handshaker.java:979) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker$1.run(Handshaker.java:919) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker$1.run(Handshaker.java:916) ~[?:?]
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_77]

#3

Typical SSL handshake errors are related to certificate not being recognized. Have you added your certificate, that you have used to secure your transport port, to default trust store?

#4

Yes @askids. The self signed certificates are added under section ssl and ssl_internode

#5

I am referring to truststore and not key store. Have you imported the certificates to trust store?

#6

Yes @askids. Here is the updated readonlyrest.yml file but still getting same error

readonlyrest:
    access_control_rules:
    - name: "Require HTTP Basic Auth"
      type: allow
      auth_key: user:password

    ssl:
      keystore_file: "elastic-ssl.keystore.jks"
      keystore_pass: secret
      key_pass: secret
      truststore_file: "elastic-ssl.keystore.jks"
      truststore_pass: secret
      #client_verification: true
    ssl_internode:
      keystore_file: "elastic-ssl.keystore.jks"
      keystore_pass: secret
      key_pass: secret
      truststore_file: "elastic-ssl.keystore.jks"
      truststore_pass: secret
      certificate_verification: true
#7

@askids,
Below is the error coming now.

[2020-02-18T07:38:56,262][WARN ][o.e.t.TcpTransport ] [es-data-1-] exception caught on transport layer [Netty4TcpChannel{localAddress=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:9300, remoteAddress=/10.10.10.1:52422}], closing connection
io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: certificate_unknown
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:473) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelInputClosed(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:406) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelInputClosed(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:373) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelInactive(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:356) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.channelInactive(SslHandler.java:1078) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:257) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:243) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:236) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.channelInactive(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1417) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:257) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:243) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelInactive(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:913) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel$AbstractUnsafe$8.run(AbstractChannel.java:819) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.util.concurrent.AbstractEventExecutor.safeExecute(AbstractEventExecutor.java:163) [netty-common-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor.runAllTasks(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:510) [netty-common-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:518) [netty-transport-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$6.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:1050) [netty-common-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.util.internal.ThreadExecutorMap$2.run(ThreadExecutorMap.java:74) [netty-common-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:1.8.0_77]
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: certificate_unknown
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:208) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.fatal(SSLEngineImpl.java:1666) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.fatal(SSLEngineImpl.java:1634) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.recvAlert(SSLEngineImpl.java:1800) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.readRecord(SSLEngineImpl.java:1083) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.readNetRecord(SSLEngineImpl.java:907) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.unwrap(SSLEngineImpl.java:781) ~[?:?]
at javax.net.ssl.SSLEngine.unwrap(SSLEngine.java:624) ~[?:1.8.0_77]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler$SslEngineType$3.unwrap(SslHandler.java:280) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.unwrap(SslHandler.java:1332) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decodeJdkCompatible(SslHandler.java:1227) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decode(SslHandler.java:1274) ~[netty-handler-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.decodeRemovalReentryProtection(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:503) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:442) ~[netty-codec-4.1.43.Final.jar:4.1.43.Final]
… 18 more

#8

Specifying truststore option is apparently only available from 1.19.1. If you are on older version, you will need to import the cert into default truststore on your machine.

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