CPP: Disabled SSL certificate verification

[porcupineyhairs]

Disable SSL certificate verification can expose the communication to MITM attacks.

This PR adds a query to detect the same. This also include the tests and qhelp for the same.

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[ghost]

@geoffw0 I have included the changes from the review. However, for some reason, the tests don't work anymore. I am unable to diagnose what's wrong here. Can you please take a look?

[ghost]

@geoffw0 Changes done!

[github-actions[bot]]

QHelp previews:

cpp/ql/src/experimental/Security/CWE/CWE-295/CurlSSL.qhelp

Disabled certifcate verification

Disabling verification of the SSL certificate allows man-in-the-middle attacks. A SSL connection is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks if the certification is not checked properly. If the peer or the host's certificate verification is not verified, the underlying SSL communication is insecure.

Recommendation

It is recommended that all communications be done post verification of the host as well as the peer.

Example

The following snippet disables certification verification by setting the value of CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST to 0:

string host = "codeql.com"
void bad(void) {
	std::unique_ptr<CURL, void(*)(CURL*)> curl =
		std::unique_ptr<CURL, void(*)(CURL*)>(curl_easy_init(), curl_easy_cleanup);
	curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
	curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); 
  	curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_URL, host.c_str());
  	curl_easy_perform(curl.get());
}

This is bad as the certificates are not verified any more. This can be easily fixed by setting the values of the options to 2.

string host = "codeql.com"
void good(void) {
	std::unique_ptr<CURL, void(*)(CURL*)> curl =
		std::unique_ptr<CURL, void(*)(CURL*)>(curl_easy_init(), curl_easy_cleanup);
	curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 2);
	curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2); 
  	curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_URL, host.c_str());
  	curl_easy_perform(curl.get());
}

References

• Curl Documentation: CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST
• Curl Documentation: CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER
• Related CVE: CVE-2022-33684
• Related security advisory: openframeworks/openframeworks
• Common Weakness Enumeration: CWE-295.

[geoffw0]

Looks like you need to:

• autoformat CurlSSL.ql
• fix the qhelp; I think you're just missing <p> / </p> tags around your text blocks.

Let me know if you need any help with these things.

[ghost]

@geoffw0 Changes done. PTAL.