Potential issues with wildcard certificates
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In many places throughout the codebase, cluster communications use certificate identities many times to identify a node, and if the certificate simply presents a wildcard DN, that doesn't resolve to a specific node
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Admins may need to provide a custom node identity in authorizers.xml for
*.nifi.apache.org
because all proxy actions only resolve to the cert DN. -
Admins have no traceability into which node performed an action because they all resolve to the same DN
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Admins running multiple instances on the same machine using different ports to identify them can accidentally put
node1
hostname withnode2
port, and the address will resolve fine because it's using the same certificate, but the host header handler will block it because thenode1
hostname is (correctly) not listed as an acceptable host fornode2
instance -
If the wildcard certificate is compromised, all nodes are compromised