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ftplib: Add client-side SSL session resumption #63699

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YeWang mannequin opened this issue Nov 5, 2013 · 28 comments
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ftplib: Add client-side SSL session resumption #63699

YeWang mannequin opened this issue Nov 5, 2013 · 28 comments
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YeWang mannequin commented Nov 5, 2013

BPO 19500
Nosy @pitrou, @giampaolo, @tiran, @alex, @dstufft, @zhangyangyu, @rreilink, @larsschellhas
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  • ftplib-FTPS-bug.txt: Python source and command prompt input/output
  • reuse_session.diff: proof-of-concept session reuse
  • implement_ssl_session_reuse.patch: Patch which implements SSL session reuse and fixes corresponding FTP_TLS issue
  • implement_ssl_session_reuse_3.6.patch: Patch which implements SSL session reuse and fixes corresponding FTP_TLS issue targeted at 3.6
  • SSLSession-support.patch
  • sesstime.py
  • SSLSession-support-2.patch
  • SSL-client-side-SSL-session-resumption.patch
  • ftplib_session.patch
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    YeWang mannequin commented Nov 5, 2013

    According to RFC4217 (Securing FTP with TLS, aka the FTPS spec),

    http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4217.html#section-10.2

    " It is reasonable for the server to insist that the data connection
    uses a TLS cached session. This might be a cache of a previous data
    connection or of a cleared control connection. If this is the reason
    for the refusal to allow the data transfer, then the '522' reply
    should indicate this.

    Note: This has an important impact on client design, but allows
    servers to minimize the cycles used during TLS negotiation by
    refusing to perform a full negotiation with a previously
    authenticated client."

    It appears that vsftpd server implemented exactly that by enforcing the "SSL session reuse between the control and data connection".

    http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/02/vsftpd-210-released.html

    Looking at the source of Python core library ftplib.py, there isn't any regard to the idea of SSL session reuse between data connection vs. control connection (correct me if I am wrong here. I've tried FTP_TLS.transfercmd(cmd[, rest])¶, didn't work).

    This issue is well documented on other FTP clients that supports FTPS, I.E. WinSCP: http://winscp.net/tracker/show_bug.cgi?id=668

    See test log file attached. A vsftpd server with "require_ssl_reuse" set to true in vsftpd.conf would do the trick and can be reproduced.

    @0e8fe697-8e17-4ce4-8e43-aa92e4981e6a YeWang mannequin added type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir labels Nov 5, 2013
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    Interesting, I wasn't aware of this FTP(S) feature.
    Unfortunately RFC-4217 really doesn't say much about how this should be done but it definitively looks like something worth having.
    AFAIU this looks like something which should be implemented by servers though, not clients.

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    pitrou commented Apr 17, 2014

    Yuck. Is there a public FTP server available somewhere with this "feature"?

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    pitrou commented Apr 17, 2014

    The RFC is unhelpfully lousy. It's not enough to process a "522" error, since that can be triggered for different reasons. You also somehow have to interpret the error text to detect that session reuse is indeed mandated by the server.

    Regardless, to progress with this we would first need to implement client-side SSL session reuse, which necessitates a bunch of additional APIs (since which session is to be reused is a decision made by user code), and a new opaque type to carry SSL_SESSION objects...

    (see issue bpo-8106)

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    MarkRibau mannequin commented Aug 8, 2014

    Adding Python v2.7 as also exhibiting this behavior.

    Some people over on Stack Overflow have done some things to work around the issue via subclassing, but I'm not sure their solutions are "correct", so much as have useful side effects. (For example, when only the server has a key/cert and the client does not, how is that handled for reuse?)

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12164470/python-ftp-tls-connection-issue

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    AlexWarhawk mannequin commented Oct 3, 2015

    I encountered this problem recently and could not find a fix, so i tried fixing it myself.

    Note that the patch attached is my first contribution to cpython as well as the first time I used the C extension mechanism. Therefore I do not consider the patch polished enough to be just merged upstream.

    Maybe it helps in solving this issue.

    The attached patch is based on:
    changeset: 79113:ec373d762213
    branch: 2.7

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    AlexWarhawk mannequin commented Oct 7, 2015

    Based on the proof-of-concept patch I submitted a few days ago I have built a more sophisticated patch. Please review it and let me know about necessary changes.

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    This is supposed to be a new feature hence the patch should be targeted against Python 3.6, definitively not 2.7.

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    AlexWarhawk mannequin commented Oct 8, 2015

    I have re-targeted the patch for 3.6. It is not a 1 to 1 port of the prior one, but quite similar.

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    tiran commented Oct 8, 2015

    Thanks for your patch. There might be a simpler way. By default a SSLContext only caches server sessions. You can enable client session caching with:

      SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode(ctx, SSL_SESS_CACHE_CLIENT)

    This may be sufficient for FTP over TLS since both sockets are created from the same context.

    The new patch has a flaw. With the new SSLSession object a user could attempt to reuse a SSLSession with a different SSLContext. That's going to break OpenSSL.

    From SSL_set_session(3)

    NOTES
    SSL_SESSION objects keep internal link information about the session cache list, when being inserted into one SSL_CTX object's session cache. One SSL_SESSION object, regardless of its reference count, must therefore only be used with one SSL_CTX object (and the SSL objects created from this SSL_CTX object).

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    AlexWarhawk mannequin commented Oct 8, 2015

    Thanks for the heads up Christian I'll try enabling client session caching. If this does not work I'll try to adapt the patch to only allow session reusing within the same context.

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    AlexWarhawk mannequin commented Oct 9, 2015

    Even after enabling client cache one still has to call SSL_set_session. See documentation of SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode point SSL_SESS_CACHE_CLIENT.

    I started thinking about not exposing a SSL_SESSION object to the user but rather extending wrap_socket to take an already established socket as argument and use that socket's session object. This way I can ensure that both sockets share the same SSL context

    I am not really convinced by this idea myself, what do you think about this? Any better ideas?

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    tiran commented Sep 4, 2016

    Here is my take on the SSLSession feature. The patch provides a SSLSession type, SSLSocket.session getter/setter and SSLSocket.session_reused getter. The setter makes sure that the session can only set for client sockets from the same SSLContext and before handshake. Tests and documentation need some improvements.

    https://github.com/tiran/cpython/commits/feature/openssl_session

    @tiran tiran changed the title Error when connecting to FTPS servers not supporting SSL session resuming Add client-side SSL session resumption Sep 4, 2016
    @tiran tiran added type-feature A feature request or enhancement and removed type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error labels Sep 4, 2016
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    tiran commented Sep 5, 2016

    Performance improvements with session resumption is quite noticeable. I see between 17 and 21% improvement for 10 requests GET http://pypi.python.org/pypi in a simple benchmark:

    session resumption: 1.264sec
    no session: 1.535sec
    82.4%

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    Patch LGTM. But one thing is that every time it returns a new instance of SSL.Session. That means ssl_sock.session == ssl_sock.session will always return False right now. Is it useful to make it comparable?

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    tiran commented Sep 5, 2016

    Xiang, good point! I have added richcompare to SSLSession (based on session id). My branch on github implements a couple more fixes and improvements.

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    tiran commented Sep 5, 2016

    Note to future me:
    Don't forget to take care of X.509 client authentication. A server is allowed to bypass client cert validation when a SSL session is resumed. SSLContext.load_cert_chain() should invalidate session caches. (CVE-2016-5419 https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160803A.html)

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    tiran commented Sep 7, 2016

    Session resumption is currently broken in OpenSSL 1.1.0, openssl/openssl#1550

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    tiran commented Sep 8, 2016

    This patch implements a workaround for OpenSSL 1.1.0.

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    python-dev mannequin commented Sep 10, 2016

    New changeset 6f2644738876 by Christian Heimes in branch 'default':
    Issue bpo-19500: Add client-side SSL session resumption to the ssl module.
    https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6f2644738876

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    tiran commented Sep 10, 2016

    I have committed the feature with rudimentary documentation. I will provide more documentation and an example before 3.6.0b2.

    @tiran tiran added the docs Documentation in the Doc dir label Sep 10, 2016
    @tiran tiran self-assigned this Sep 10, 2016
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    rreilink mannequin commented Jan 24, 2017

    With this code in place, ftplib should / could also be updated to support session resumption. This would fix bugs with connections to FTP servers that require session resumption [1], [2]

    In ftplib.FTP_TLS.ntransfercmd, just add a reference to the current session in the wrap_socket call (maybe make this an option to do session resumption or not; I don't know if it could break something)

    Proposed patch is attached.

    [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14659154/ftpes-session-reuse-required
    [2] https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=36903

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    tiran commented Feb 26, 2018

    It's now an ftplib issue.

    It's too late to land a new feature in 3.7 because we have reached feature freeze.

    @tiran tiran added 3.8 only security fixes and removed docs Documentation in the Doc dir topic-SSL labels Feb 26, 2018
    @tiran tiran changed the title Add client-side SSL session resumption ftplib: Add client-side SSL session resumption Feb 26, 2018
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    FlorianWickert mannequin commented May 26, 2020

    Using vsftpd 3.0.3 with ssl_enable=YES and require_ssl_reuse=YES I get the following error when I try to upload a file with conn.storbinary():

    FTP command: Client "192.168.178.115", "STOR something.bin"
    FTP response: Client "192.168.178.115", "150 Ok to send data."
    FTP response: Client "x.x.x.x", "150 Ok to send data."
    DEBUG: Client "x.x.x.x", "DATA connection terminated without SSL shutdown. Buggy client! Integrity of upload cannot be asserted."
    FTP response: Client "x.x.x.x", "426 Failure reading network stream."

    This also happens when SSL reuse is disabled on the server side.
    Uploading with FileZilla works and there is basically no difference in the log until the error happens.

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    larsschellhas mannequin commented Sep 23, 2020

    Excuse me, but why is this issue still open and unfixed? There are already proposed fixes and this issue has been around for nearly 7 years now.
    Filezilla has forwarded the responsibility to us for this issue (https://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/10700), so please, let's just fix it.

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    tiran commented Sep 23, 2020

    I have provided necessary infrastructure for TLS 1.2 session resumption in the ssl module a couple of releases ago. But nobody has taken ownership of this ftplib issue and provided a full fix with regression tests and documentation update.

    If you like to see ftplib enhanced to support session resumption, please provide a PR with regression tests. Demanding a fix won't accelerate work on the issue.

    @tiran tiran added 3.10 only security fixes and removed 3.8 only security fixes labels Sep 23, 2020
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    larsschellhas mannequin commented Sep 23, 2020

    @christian Heimes, you are absolutely right. I'm sorry if I came off rude.

    Actually, I just had a rough day at work with the end of it being the realisation that this missing fix would solve my day-filling issue from today.

    Furthermore, I've actually returned here, just to read through the whole thread again, hoping to find a way to contribute to it's resolution.
    However, this is my first time contributing to Python, but I'm eager to learn and dive into the necessary resources.
    Could you give me a hint about where to start?

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    athish-t commented Oct 6, 2022

    Hi! Do we know if anyone is working on this? If not, maybe I can make this my first contribution to Python.

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