soapcoldfusioncertificatecfhttp

Coldfusion CFHTTP handshake_failure

I am trying to send a SOAP request by CFHTTP with a client certificate. My test requests in SOAP UI are successful but when I try to send requests by CFHTTP I get the following error:

I/O Exception: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure

My CFHTTP tag is like this:

<cfhttp
    url="https://..."
    method="post"
    clientcert="C:\..."
    clientcertpassword="password"
    result="httpResponse"
    >

I have tried to check the logs for more ideas of where the failure could be happening. I can only get the following:

http.log

"Information","ajp-bio-8014-exec-10","09/26/16","07:07:59",,"Starting HTTP request {URL='https://...', method='post'}"

coldfusion-out.log

Sep 26, 2016 07:07:59 AM Information [ajp-bio-8014-exec-10] - Starting HTTP request {URL='https://...', method='post'}

I have imported the certificates with keytool and when I list the certificates in cacerts I see them there.

Any other ideas where I can look to troubleshoot this issue?

Edited to add:

My certificate is in .p12 format and has a password. I have tested the .p12 file with the password in SOAP UI and it works.

I have installed CF10-Certman and confirmed the certificates are there from CF Administrator as well.

I've added these lines to my jvm.config:

-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=C:\\ColdFusion11\\jre\\lib\\security\\cacerts 
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=password 
-Djavax.net.ssl=debug
-Djavax.net.debug=all

I tried the keystore path with \ and / ("C:/Coldfusion11/...")

Additional coldfusion-out.log output:

Sep 26, 2016 11:10:06 AM Information [ajp-bio-8014-exec-2] - Starting HTTP request {URL='https://...', method='post'}
...
Ignoring unsupported cipher suite: TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
...
Allow unsafe renegotiation: true
Allow legacy hello messages: true
Is initial handshake: true
Is secure renegotiation: false
%% No cached client session
*** ClientHello, TLSv1
RandomCookie:  GMT: 1458128991 bytes = { 40, ... }
Session ID:  {}
Cipher Suites: [TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5, TLS_EMPTY_RENEGOTIATION_INFO_SCSV]
Compression Methods:  { 0 }
Extension elliptic_curves, curve names: {secp256r1, sect163k1, sect163r2, secp192r1, secp224r1, sect233k1, sect233r1, sect283k1, sect283r1, secp384r1, sect409k1, sect409r1, secp521r1, sect571k1, sect571r1, secp160k1, secp160r1, secp160r2, sect163r1, secp192k1, sect193r1, sect193r2, secp224k1, sect239k1, secp256k1}
Extension ec_point_formats, formats: [uncompressed]
Extension server_name, server_name: [host_name: url ]
***
ajp-bio-8014-exec-2, WRITE: TLSv1 Handshake, length = 195
ajp-bio-8014-exec-2, READ: TLSv1.1 Alert, length = 2
ajp-bio-8014-exec-2, RECV TLSv1 ALERT:  fatal, handshake_failure
ajp-bio-8014-exec-2, called closeSocket()
ajp-bio-8014-exec-2, handling exception: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure
Finalizer, called close()
Finalizer, called closeInternal(true)

The CipherSuite in SOAPUI is TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

UPDATE

I removed the clientcert and clientcertpassword from the cfhttp tag and now I am seeing this in coldfusion-out.log:

ajp-bio-8014-exec-1, WRITE: TLSv1.1 Handshake, length = 64
ajp-bio-8014-exec-1, setSoTimeout(360000) called
ajp-bio-8014-exec-1, WRITE: TLSv1.1 Application Data, length = 1680
ajp-bio-8014-exec-1, READ: TLSv1.1 Alert, length = 48
ajp-bio-8014-exec-1, RECV TLSv1.1 ALERT:  warning, close_notify
ajp-bio-8014-exec-1, called closeInternal(false)
ajp-bio-8014-exec-1, SEND TLSv1.1 ALERT:  warning, description = close_notify
ajp-bio-8014-exec-1, WRITE: TLSv1.1 Alert, length = 48
ajp-bio-8014-exec-1, called closeSocket(false)
ajp-bio-8014-exec-1, called close()
ajp-bio-8014-exec-1, called closeInternal(true)

I have reached out to the server administrator to see if they are seeing the request on their end.

UPDATE

Adding the clientcert back in fixed it!

Solution

  • I am not sure what exactly fixed this issue overall but if you review my original post including updates the following things seemed to have contributed:

    1) Not including clientcert caused ColdFusion to check cacerts for the server certificates

    2) Re-adding clientcert caused ColdFusion to complete the handshake

    The JVM.config settings also helped in debugging and ensuring the correct protocol was used.