6 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
Nicola 0fb843a472 ssh/agent: reject keys with unsupported confirm constraint
The in-memory keyring supports the "lifetime" constraint but does not
implement the "confirm" constraint. Previously, keyring.Add silently
ignored ConfirmBeforeUse: the key was stored, advertised through List,
and used for signing without any interactive confirmation, potentially
misleading callers into believing this security measure was enforced.

Return an error when ConfirmBeforeUse is set instead of silently
downgrading the caller's security expectations. Implementing real
confirm-before-use in an in-memory library keyring is infeasible (there
is no UI or confirmation callback), so failing closed is the correct
behavior; adding actual confirm support would require an API addition
and is out of scope.

This is a deliberate behavior change: keyring.Add previously accepted
and ignored ConfirmBeforeUse and now returns an error. This change also
updates the keyring doc comments to document the supported constraints.

This issue was found during a security audit by NCC Group Cryptography
Services, sponsored by Teleport.

Fixes CVE-2026-39833
Updates golang/go#47533
Fixes golang/go#79436

Change-Id: I1b3a286f0c1e4a4e08ac37109f7e491692ca90ae
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/crypto/+/778642
Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Patel <nealpatel@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Patel <neal@golang.org>
Auto-Submit: Neal Patel <nealpatel@google.com>
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2026-05-21 10:54:57 -07:00
Nicola e3d1254f1e ssh/agent: don't accept keys with unsupported constraints
The in-memory keyring cannot enforce constraint extensions, so silently
accepting a key that carries them gave callers a false sense of
restriction. Refuse keys with constraint extensions instead: a key
whose constraints cannot be enforced must not be loaded. This behavior
is consistent with OpenSSH.

This is a deliberate behavior change: keyring.Add previously accepted
and ignored ConstraintExtensions and now returns an error.

This issue was found during a security audit by NCC Group Cryptography
Services, sponsored by Teleport.

Fixes CVE-2026-39832
Fixes golang/go#79435

Change-Id: I6ca4f1c29f8edfabb287fe07299641f70896d5fe
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/crypto/+/778641
Auto-Submit: Neal Patel <nealpatel@google.com>
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Reviewed-by: Neal Patel <neal@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Patel <nealpatel@google.com>
2026-05-21 10:47:08 -07:00
cuishuang 1faea2975c all: fix some typos in comment
Change-Id: Ia209f0a6d9b19d14e655c65d1287a1416b48c487
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/crypto/+/707535
Reviewed-by: Carlos Amedee <carlos@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Pratt <mpratt@google.com>
Auto-Submit: Sean Liao <sean@liao.dev>
Reviewed-by: Nicola Murino <nicola.murino@gmail.com>
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Reviewed-by: Sean Liao <sean@liao.dev>
2025-10-08 13:58:26 -07:00
Nicola Murino b2d3a6a4b4 ssh/agent: ensure to not add duplicated keys
When adding a new key, if we already have a Signer with the same public
key, we now replace it with the new one instead of duplicating it.

Before this change we had this:

$ ssh-add -l
3072 SHA256:bsBRHC/xgiqBJdSuvSTNpJNLTISP/G356jNMCRYC5Es nicola@p1 (RSA)
3072 SHA256:bsBRHC/xgiqBJdSuvSTNpJNLTISP/G356jNMCRYC5Es nicola@p1 (RSA-CERT)

$ ssh-add /home/nicola/ssh_certs/id_rsa
Identity added: /home/nicola/ssh_certs/id_rsa (nicola@p1)
Certificate added: /home/nicola/ssh_certs/id_rsa-cert.pub (myid)

$ ssh-add -l
3072 SHA256:bsBRHC/xgiqBJdSuvSTNpJNLTISP/G356jNMCRYC5Es nicola@p1 (RSA)
3072 SHA256:bsBRHC/xgiqBJdSuvSTNpJNLTISP/G356jNMCRYC5Es nicola@p1 (RSA-CERT)
3072 SHA256:bsBRHC/xgiqBJdSuvSTNpJNLTISP/G356jNMCRYC5Es nicola@p1 (RSA)
3072 SHA256:bsBRHC/xgiqBJdSuvSTNpJNLTISP/G356jNMCRYC5Es nicola@p1 (RSA-CERT)

Change-Id: Iad1b1a6dc94f68f53f05d7d1172f0017839976fc
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/crypto/+/602955
Reviewed-by: Filippo Valsorda <filippo@golang.org>
Auto-Submit: Nicola Murino <nicola.murino@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Knyszek <mknyszek@google.com>
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2024-08-06 16:07:48 +00:00
Peter Moody 8e06e8ddd9 x/crypto/ssh/agent: honor constraints on keys in the keyring.
If a key is added to an agent keyring with constraints, honor them.
This will remove keys when they've been on the keyring for
LifetimeSecs seconds or longer and will ask the user to confirm a
signing operation if ConfirmBeforeUse is set.

Change-Id: I633713c5f78b13a628a5d752f11b306b6e16a2ef
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/28956
Reviewed-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
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2016-09-22 17:06:29 +00:00
Mark Severson f18420efc3 x/crypto/ssh/agent: Fix keyring removing the wrong key(s)
The Remove method for the keyring sliced the internal keys list
incorrectly when removing a key. This caused the wrong key to be removed
or sometimes multiple keys were removed. Additionally, if the key to be
removed was the last key, the method never returned.

Fixes golang/go#13628

Change-Id: I0facbcb8f8b65709222067ce37ea26e3fb5ba8e8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/17870
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
2015-12-15 19:15:01 +00:00