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How to use `new tls.TLSSocket(...)` to establish a secure connection?

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Affected URL(s)

https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v18.x/api/tls.html

Description of the problem

What is the correct, non-deprecated way to use the new tls.TLSSocket(...) constructor to establish a secure connection? Context: https://github.com/typelevel/fs2/security/advisories/GHSA-2cpx-6pqp-wf35

According to two unmerged docs PRs, when directly calling new tls.TLSSocket(...) it is the user's responsibility to validate peer certificates and identity.

In https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10846 it says:

Warning: When directly constructing a tls.TLSSocket instead of using
[tls.connect()][] it is the caller's responsibility to:

  • manage the lifetime of the the underlying socket, including connecting it;
  • validate the peer certificate and identity, see the ['secure'][] event.

Before using the connection, the user must make the following
checks or the connection should be considered completely insecure:

  1. Verify that the peer certificate is valid, see [ssl.verifyError()][].
  2. Verify that the peer certificate is for the expected host, see
    [tls.checkServerIdentity()][] and [tls.TLSSocket.getPeerCertificate()][].

In https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/23915 it says:

It is important to remember, however,
that it is the caller's responsibility to manage the lifecycle of the provided
net.Socket, including establishing the connection and validating peer
certificates and identity. See the ['secure'][] event.

And includes an example:

tlsSocket.on('secure', function() {
  const err = this.verifyError() ||
    tls.checkServerIdentity(hostname, this.getPeerCertificate());
  if (err)
    this.destroy(err);
});

Both PRs demonstrate how to do this validation, but require use of:

  1. The 'secure' event. In the current Node.js documentation, the only mention of 'secure' is under the deprecated tls.SecurePair, and is itself deprecated. It is also not clear that the 'secure' event is also emitted on tls.TLSSocket.
    https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v18.x/api/tls.html#event-secure
  2. tlsSocket.ssl.verifyError(), which does not appear at all in the current documentation. Furthermore, according to https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/840#issuecomment-74343250 tlsSocket.ssl is a "legacy property".

Note that the described validation steps appear to be consistent with internal use
https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/5fbf33ef8641cf57bfbb7f0c87f83447c44266b8/lib/_tls_wrap.js#L1106
https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/5fbf33ef8641cf57bfbb7f0c87f83447c44266b8/lib/_tls_wrap.js#L1044-L1055

This leaves me with two concerns:

  1. The current documentation does not indicate that using new tls.TLSSocket(...) by itself does not result in a secure connection.
  2. As far as I can tell it is impossible to use new tls.TLSSocket(...) to establish a secure connection without relying on APIs that are undocumented, deprecated, and/or legacy.

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Línea de trabajo

Comienza con la documentación de TLS v18 para tls.TLSSocket, el evento 'secure' y las secciones enlazadas de lib/_tls_wrap.js. Compara las API documentadas con el ejemplo de validación que usa verifyError(), tls.checkServerIdentity() y getPeerCertificate(). Se considerará terminado cuando la documentación explique claramente una forma compatible y no obsoleta de establecer y validar una conexión segura, o documente explícitamente la limitación.

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Evaluación

Stack tecnológico
javascript, node.js
Área
documentation, security
Tipo de issue
Documentación
Dificultad
4/5
Tiempo estimado
3-5 días
Estado de actividad
Activo
Claridad
Bastante claro
Aptitud para principiantes
50/100

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