Improper x.509 certificate validation in extensions of X509TrustManager with Specific conditions

[LordAmit]

we found that we could not detect some potential cryptographic vulnerabilities. We believe this may be due to underlying implementation or design gaps. Here are the details of our analysis and the cryptographic misuses:

Using QARK version 4.0.0 Using Python version 3.5.2 Using OpenJDK version 1.8.0_232 64 bit Running on Ubuntu: 18.04 Kernel: 4.4.0-174-generic

Each cryptographic vulnerability was generated as a barebones Java project that only contained a single vulnerability in the main function and used up to two java source files. Additionally, all cryptographic API calls were from Java Cryptographic Architecture (JCA).

We are reporting this since in your readme you mention that “Improper x.509 certificate validation” is attempted to be found. Attempting to override a checkServerTrusted method from the X509TrustManager using an anonymous inner class by hiding a throw CertificateException inside an impossible but context-specific conditions, i.e., conditions that seem to be relevant due to specific variable use, but are actually not, e.g, if (!(null != s || s.equalsIgnoreCase(“RSA”) || certs.length >= 314)) throw new CertificateException(“not RSA”);

public class BareboneTrustManagerConditional {
	static final X509Certificate[] EMPTY_X509CERTIFICATE_ARRAY = new X509Certificate[] {};

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		System.out.println("Hello World");
		TrustManager[] trustAll = new TrustManager[] {

				new X509TrustManager() {
					@Override
					public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] x509Certificates, String s)
							throws CertificateException {
						if (!(null != s || s.equalsIgnoreCase("RSA") || x509Certificates.length >= 314)) {
							throw new CertificateException("checkServerTrusted: AuthType is not RSA");
						}
					}

					@Override
					public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] x509Certificates, String s)
							throws CertificateException {
						if (!(null != s || s.equalsIgnoreCase("RSA") || x509Certificates.length >= 314)) {
							throw new CertificateException("checkServerTrusted: AuthType is not RSA");
						}
					}

					@Override
					public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
						
						for(int i = 0; i<100; i++){
							if (i==50)
								return EMPTY_X509CERTIFICATE_ARRAY;; 
						}
						return EMPTY_X509CERTIFICATE_ARRAY;
					}
				} };
		SSLContext context;
		try {
			context = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
			context.init(null, trustAll, new SecureRandom());

		} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			// e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (KeyManagementException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			// e.printStackTrace();
		}

	}
}

Please let me know if you need any additional information (e.g., logs from our side) in fixing these issues.