Missing Report of Error Condition

Summary

Clients using RFC7250 Raw Public Keys (RPKs) to authenticate a server may fail to notice that the server was not authenticated because handshakes don't abort as expected when the "SSL_VERIFY_PEER" verification mode is set. TLS and DTLS connections using raw public keys may be vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks when server authentication failure is not detected by clients. RPKs are disabled by default in both TLS clients and TLS servers. The issue only arises when TLS clients explicitly enable RPK use by the server, and the server likewise enables sending an RPK instead of an X.509 certificate chain. The affected clients are those that then rely on the handshake to fail when the server's RPK fails to match one of the expected public keys by setting the verification mode to "SSL_VERIFY_PEER."Clients that enable server-side raw public keys can still find out that raw public key verification failed by calling "SSL_get_verify_result()", and those that do and take appropriate action are not affected. This issue was introduced in the initial implementation of RPK support in OpenSSL 3.2. The FIPS modules in 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, and 3.0 are not affected by this issue. This issue affects openssl versions 3.2.x prior to 3.2.4, 3.3.x prior to 3.3.3, and 3.4.x prior to 3.4.1. The versions of OpenSSL included in cryptography 42.0.0 through 44.0.0 are vulnerable to a security issue.