Keep an accepting verifier from overriding Mbed TLS verification

With built-in verification on, a server certificate verifier returning
true made Mbed TLS accept a certificate its own check had rejected,
such as a self-signed one, while OpenSSL and wolfSSL still failed with
SSLServerVerification. On a client, keep the flags of Mbed TLS's own
verification, so the verifier is an additional check as on the other
backends. With verification off, the verifier is still the only check.

A server still clears them: there all three backends let an accepting
callback admit a client certificate.
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yhirose committed 2026-10-18 12:41:23 -04:00
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@@ -20770,6 +20770,8 @@ struct MbedTlsSession {
// ever runs the callback of its own context.
VerifyCallback verify_callback;
bool is_server = false;
MbedTlsSession() { mbedtls_ssl_init(&ssl); }
~MbedTlsSession() { mbedtls_ssl_free(&ssl); }
@@ -20949,7 +20951,7 @@ inline int mbedtls_verify_callback(void *data, mbedtls_x509_crt *crt,
// set_sni() disabled hostname verification for this session: ignore the
// CN/SAN mismatch flag, as the OpenSSL/wolfSSL backends do. The final
// pass/fail decision still comes from the remaining flags (or, below, from
// pass/fail decision still comes from the remaining flags (and, below, from
// the user's own verify callback).
if (session->suppress_hostname_mismatch) { mbedtls_clear_cn_mismatch(flags); }
@@ -20976,7 +20978,9 @@ inline int mbedtls_verify_callback(void *data, mbedtls_x509_crt *crt,
bool accepted = run_verify_callback(callback, verify_ctx);
if (accepted) {
*flags = 0; // Clear all error flags
// Overrides the built-in verification only on a server, as on OpenSSL and
// wolfSSL, whose clients check the verify result after the handshake
if (session->is_server) { *flags = 0; }
return 0;
}
return MBEDTLS_ERR_X509_CERT_VERIFY_FAILED;
@@ -21379,6 +21383,7 @@ inline session_t create_session(ctx_t ctx, socket_t sock) {
// may ask for. The session runs its own copy of the user's callback, which
// set_verify_callback() cannot replace under a handshake.
session->verify_callback = mctx->verify_callback;
session->is_server = mctx->is_server;
mbedtls_ssl_set_verify(&session->ssl, impl::mbedtls_verify_callback, session);
return static_cast<session_t>(session);
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@@ -17060,6 +17060,45 @@ TEST(VerifyCallbackTest, VerifyContextFields) {
EXPECT_TRUE(saw_leaf_cert);
}
// A verifier that accepts runs alongside the built-in verification, and is the
// only check once that is turned off.
TEST(VerifyCallbackTest, AcceptingVerifierDoesNotOverrideVerification) {
using namespace httplib::tls;
SSLServer svr(SERVER_CERT_FILE, SERVER_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE);
ASSERT_TRUE(svr.is_valid());
svr.Get("/test", [](const Request &, Response &res) {
res.set_content("ok", "text/plain");
});
auto port = svr.bind_to_any_port(HOST);
thread t([&]() { svr.listen_after_bind(); });
auto se = detail::scope_exit([&] {
svr.stop();
t.join();
});
svr.wait_until_ready();
SSLClient cli(HOST, port);
cli.enable_server_hostname_verification(false);
auto calls = 0;
cli.set_server_certificate_verifier([&](const VerifyContext &) {
calls++;
return true;
});
// cert.pem is not trusted
auto res = cli.Get("/test");
ASSERT_FALSE(res);
EXPECT_EQ(Error::SSLServerVerification, res.error());
EXPECT_GT(calls, 0);
cli.enable_server_certificate_verification(false);
res = cli.Get("/test");
ASSERT_TRUE(res) << "Error: " << to_string(res.error());
EXPECT_EQ("ok", res->body);
}
// A verifier belongs to the client that set it, not to the thread that set it.
TEST(VerifyCallbackTest, VerifierStaysWithItsClient) {
using namespace httplib::tls;