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  <front>
    <title abbrev="Updates to X.509 Policy Validation">Updates to X.509 Policy Validation</title>
    <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-ietf-lamps-x509-policy-graph-05"/> name="RFC" value="9618"/>
    <author initials="D." surname="Benjamin" fullname="David Benjamin">
      <organization>Google LLC</organization>
      <address>
        <email>davidben@google.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <date year="2024" month="February" day="01"/>
    <area>Security</area>
    <workgroup>Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX and SMIME</workgroup>
    <keyword>Internet-Draft</keyword>
    <abstract>
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<t>This month="August"/>

    <area>sec</area>
    <workgroup>lamps</workgroup>

    <keyword>Certificate</keyword>

    <abstract><t>This document updates RFC 5280 to replace the algorithm for
    X.509 policy validation with an equivalent, more efficient algorithm. The
    original algorithm built a structure which that scaled exponentially in the
    worst case, leaving implementations vulnerable to denial-of-service
    attacks.</t>
    </abstract>
    <note removeInRFC="true">
      <name>Discussion Venues</name>
      <t>Discussion of this document takes place on the
    Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX and SMIME Working Group mailing list (spasm@ietf.org),
    which is archived at <eref target="https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/spasm/"/>.</t>
      <t>Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at
    <eref target="https://github.com/davidben/x509-policy-graph"/>.</t>
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<section anchor="introduction">
      <name>Introduction</name>
      <t><xref target="RFC5280"/> defines a suite of extensions for
      determining the "policies" which policies that apply to a certification path. A policy
      is described by an object identifier
(OID), (OID) and a set of optional
      qualifiers.</t>
      <t>Policy validation in <xref target="RFC5280"/> is complex. As an
      overview, the certificate policies extension (<xref section="4.2.1.4"
      sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/>) describes the policies, with
      optional qualifiers, under which an individual certificate was issued.
      The policy mappings extension (<xref section="4.2.1.5"
      sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/>) allows a CA certificate to map
      its policy OIDs to other policy OIDs in certificates that it
      issues. Subject to these mappings and other extensions, the
      certification path's overall policy set is the intersection of policies
      asserted by each certificate in the path, collecting the corresponding qualifiers.</t> path.</t>

      <t>The procedure in <xref section="6.1" sectionFormat="of"
      target="RFC5280"/> determines this set in the course of certification
      path validation. It does so by building a policy tree, tree containing
      policies asserted by each certificate and the mappings between
      them. This tree can grow exponentially in the depth of the certification
      path, which means an attacker, with a small input, can cause a path
      validator to consume excessive memory and computational resources. This
      cost asymmetry can lead to a denial-of-service vulnerability in
      X.509-based applications, such as <xref target="CVE-2023-0464"/> and
      <xref target="CVE-2023-23524"/>.</t>
      <t><xref target="dos"/> describes this vulnerability. <xref
      target="policy-graph"/> describes the primary mitigation for this
      vulnerability, a replacement for the policy tree structure.  <xref
      target="updates"/> provides updates to <xref target="RFC5280"/> which that
      implement this change.  Finally, <xref target="other-mitigations"/>
      discusses alternative mitigation strategies for X.509 applications.</t>
      <section anchor="summary-of-changes-from-rfc-5280">
        <name>Summary of Changes from RFC 5280</name>
        <t>The algorithm for processing certificate policies and policy
        mappings is replaced with one which that builds an equivalent, equivalent but much more
        efficient structure.  This new algorithm does not change the validity
        status of any certification
path, nor path or which certificate policies are
        valid for it.</t>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section anchor="conventions-and-definitions">
      <name>Conventions and Definitions</name>
      <t>The
        <t>
    The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD",
"SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", "<bcp14>MUST</bcp14>", "<bcp14>MUST NOT</bcp14>",
    "<bcp14>REQUIRED</bcp14>", "<bcp14>SHALL</bcp14>", "<bcp14>SHALL NOT</bcp14>",
    "<bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14>", "<bcp14>SHOULD NOT</bcp14>",
    "<bcp14>RECOMMENDED</bcp14>", "<bcp14>NOT RECOMMENDED</bcp14>",
    "<bcp14>MAY</bcp14>", and "OPTIONAL" "<bcp14>OPTIONAL</bcp14>" in this document are to be
    interpreted as described in BCP 14 BCP&nbsp;14 <xref target="RFC2119"/> <xref
    target="RFC8174"/> when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as
    shown here.</t> here.
        </t>
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    <section anchor="dos">
      <name>Denial of Service
      <name>Denial-of-Service Vulnerability</name>
      <t>This section discusses how the path validation algorithm defined in
<xref section="6.1.2" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/> can lead to a denial-of-service vulnerability in
X.509-based applications.</t>
      <section anchor="policy-trees">
        <name>Policy Trees</name>
        <t><xref section="6.1.2" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/>
        constructs the <tt>valid_policy_tree</tt>, a tree of certificate
        policies, during certification path validation.  The nodes at any
        given depth in the tree correspond to policies asserted by a
        certificate in the certification path.  A node's parent policy is the
        policy in the issuer certificate which that was mapped to this policy, and a
        node's children are the policies it the node was mapped to in the subject
        certificate.</t>
        <t>For example, suppose a certification path contains:</t>
        <ul spacing="normal">
          <li>
            <t>An
          <li>An intermediate certificate which that asserts the following  policy OIDs OIDs: OID1, OID2,
          and OID5.  It contains mappings from OID1 to OID3, OID3 and from OID1 to OID4.</t>
          </li>
          <li>
            <t>An OID4.</li>
          <li>An end-entity certificate which that asserts the following policy OIDs OIDs: OID2, OID3,
          and OID6.</t>
          </li> OID6.</li>
        </ul>
        <t>This would result in the tree shown in <xref target="basic-tree"/>. below.
        Note that OID5 and OID6 are not included or
        mapped across the whole path, so they do not appear in the final
        structure.</t>
        <figure anchor="basic-tree">
          <name>An Example X.509 Policy Tree</name>

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        <t>The complete algorithm for building this structure is described in
        steps (d), (e), and (f) of in <xref section="6.1.3" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/>,
        target="RFC5280"/>; steps (h), (i), and (j) of in <xref section="6.1.4"
        sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/>, target="RFC5280"/>; and steps (a), (b), and (g) of in
        <xref section="6.1.5" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/>.</t>
      </section>
      <section anchor="exponential-growth">
        <name>Exponential Growth</name>
        <t>The <tt>valid_policy_tree</tt> grows exponentially in the worst
        case. In step (d.1) of in <xref section="6.1.3" sectionFormat="of"
        target="RFC5280"/>, a single policy P can produce multiple child nodes
        if multiple issuer policies map to P. This can cause the tree size to
        increase in size multiplicatively at each level.</t>
        <t>In particular, consider a certificate chain where every
        intermediate certificate asserts policies OID1 and OID2, OID2 and then
        contains the full Cartesian product of mappings:</t>
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          </li>
          <li>
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          <li>
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          </li>
          <li>
            <t>OID2 maps to OID2</t>
          </li>
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        <t>At each depth, the tree would double in size.
For example, if there are two intermediate certificates and one end-entity certificate, the resulting tree would be as depicted in <xref target="exponential-tree"/>.</t>
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        <t>An attacker can use the exponential growth to mount a
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        attacker sends a certificate chain as described in <xref
        target="exponential-growth"/> and triggers the target application's
        certificate validation process. For example, the target application
        may be a TLS server <xref target="RFC8446"/> server that performs client
        certificate validation.  The target application will consume far more
        resources processing the input than the attacker consumed to send it, preventing it
        which prevents the target application from servicing other
        clients.</t>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section anchor="avoiding-exponential-growth">
      <name>Avoiding Exponential Growth</name>
      <t>This document mitigates the denial-of-service vulnerability
      described in <xref target="dos"/> by replacing the policy tree with a
      policy graph structure, which is described in this section. The policy graph grows
      linearly instead of exponentially. This removes the asymmetric cost in
      policy validation.</t>
      <t>X.509 implementations SHOULD <bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14> perform policy validation
      by building a policy graph, following the procedure described in <xref
      target="updates"/>. This replacement procedure computes the same
      policies as in <xref target="RFC5280"/>, however but one of the outputs is in a
      different form. See <xref target="outputs"/> for details.  <xref
      target="other-mitigations"/> describes alternative mitigations for
      implementations that depend on the original, exponential-sized
      output.</t>
      <section anchor="policy-graph">
        <name>Policy Graphs</name>

   <t>The tree structure from in <xref target="RFC5280"/> is an unnecessarily
   inefficient representation of a certification path's policy mappings. A  When
   multiple issuer policies map to a single certificate subject policy, the subject policy may
   will correspond to multiple nodes, but each node is identical, with identical
children. duplicate nodes in the policy tree. Children of
   the subject policy are then duplicated recursively. This redundancy duplication is the
   source of the exponential growth described in <xref
   target="exponential-growth"/>.</t>

   <t>A policy graph is represents the same information with a directed acyclic
   graph of policy nodes.
Where <xref target="RFC5280"/> adds multiple duplicate nodes, a policy graph adds  It eliminates this duplication by using a single
   node with multiple parents.  See <xref target="updates"/> for the procedure
   for building this structure.  <xref target="exponential-tree-as-graph"/>
   shows the updated representation of the example in <xref
   target="exponential-tree"/>.</t>

        <figure anchor="exponential-tree-as-graph">
          <name>A More Efficient Representation of an X.509 Policy Tree</name>
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        <t>This graph's size is bounded linearly by the total number of
        certificate policies (<xref section="4.2.1.4" sectionFormat="of"
        target="RFC5280"/>) and policy mappings (<xref section="4.2.1.5"
        sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/>). The policy tree from in <xref
        target="RFC5280"/> is the tree of all paths from the root to a leaf in
        the policy graph, so no information is lost in the graph
        representation.</t>
      </section>
      <section anchor="outputs">
        <name>Verification Outputs</name>

        <t><xref section="6.1.6" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/>
        describes the entire <tt>valid_policy_tree</tt> structure as an output
        of the verification process. However, Section 12.2 of <xref
        target="X.509"/> instead only
outputs describes the following as outputs: the
        authorities-constrained policies, the user-constrained policies, and
        their associated qualifiers.</t>
        <t>As the <tt>valid_policy_tree</tt> is the exponential structure,
        computing it reintroduces the denial-of-service vulnerability. X.509
        implementations
SHOULD NOT <bcp14>SHOULD NOT</bcp14> output the entire
        <tt>valid_policy_tree</tt> structure and instead SHOULD structure; instead, they
        <bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14> limit output to just the set of
        authorities-constrained and/or user-constrained policies, as described
        in <xref target="X.509"/>. Sections <xref target="update-outputs"/> target="update-outputs"
        format="counter"/> and <xref target="other-mitigations"/> target="other-mitigations"
        format="counter"/> discuss other mitigations for applications where
        this option is not available.</t>
        <t>X.509 implementations MAY <bcp14>MAY</bcp14> omit policy qualifiers
        from the output to simplify processing. Note that <xref section="4.2.1.4"
        sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/> already recommends that
        certification authorities omit policy qualifiers from policy
        information terms.</t>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section anchor="updates">
      <name>Updates to RFC 5280</name>
      <t>This section provides updates to <xref target="RFC5280"/>. This implements These updates implement the changes
described in <xref target="avoiding-exponential-growth"/>.</t>
      <section anchor="updates-to-section-61">
        <name>Updates to Section 6.1</name>
        <t>This update replaces a paragraph of <xref
        <t><xref section="6.1" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/> is updated as follows:</t>
        <t>OLD:</t>
        <ul empty="true">
          <li>
            <t>A

        <blockquote><t>A particular certification path may not, however, be
        appropriate for all applications.  Therefore, an application MAY
        <bcp14>MAY</bcp14> augment this algorithm to further limit the set of
        valid paths.  The path validation process also determines the set of
        certificate policies that are valid for this path, based on the
        certificate policies extension, policy mappings extension, policy
        constraints extension, and inhibit anyPolicy extension.  To achieve
        this, the path validation algorithm constructs a valid policy tree.
        If the set of certificate policies that are valid for this path is not
        empty, then the result will be a valid policy tree of depth n,
        otherwise the result will be a null valid policy tree.</t>
          </li>
        </ul>
        tree.</t></blockquote>

        <t>NEW:</t>
        <ul empty="true">
          <li>
            <t>A

        <blockquote><t>A particular certification path may not, however, be
        appropriate for all applications.  Therefore, an application MAY
        <bcp14>MAY</bcp14> augment this algorithm to further limit the set of
        valid paths.  The path validation process also determines the set of
        certificate policies that are valid for this path, based on the
        certificate policies extension, policy mappings extension, policy
        constraints extension, and inhibit anyPolicy extension.  To achieve
        this, the path validation algorithm constructs a valid policy set,
        which may be empty if no certificate policies are valid for this path.</t>
          </li>
        </ul>
        path.</t></blockquote>

      </section>

      <section anchor="updates-to-section-612">
        <name>Updates to Section 6.1.2</name>
        <t>This update
        <t>The following replaces entry (a) of in <xref section="6.1.2"
        sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/> with the following text:</t> target="RFC5280"/>:
        </t>
<blockquote>
        <ol spacing="normal" type="(%c)"><li>
            <t><tt>valid_policy_graph</tt>: A directed acyclic graph of
            certificate policies with their optional qualifiers; each of the
            leaves of the graph represents a valid policy at this stage in the
            certification path validation.  If valid policies exist at this
            stage in the certification path validation, the depth of the graph
            is equal to the number of certificates in the chain that have been
            processed.  If valid policies do not exist at this stage in the
            certification path validation, the graph is set to NULL.  Once the
            graph is set to NULL, policy processing ceases.  Implementations MAY
            <bcp14>MAY</bcp14> omit qualifiers if not returned in the output.
            </t>
            <t>
Each
            <t>Each node in the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> includes three
            data objects: the valid policy, a set of associated policy
            qualifiers, and a set of one or more expected policy values.  </t>
            <t>
Nodes

            <t>Nodes in the graph can be divided into depths, numbered
            starting from zero.  A node at depth x can have zero or more
            children at depth x+1 and, with the exception of depth zero, one
            or more parents at depth x-1. No other edges between nodes may
            exist.  </t>
            <t>
If
            <t>If the node is at depth x, the components of the node have the
            following semantics: </t>
            <ol spacing="normal" type="(%d)"><li>
                <t>The <tt>valid_policy</tt> is a single policy OID
                representing a valid policy for the path of length x.</t>
              </li>
              <li>
                <t>The <tt>qualifier_set</tt> is a set of policy qualifiers
                associated with the valid policy in certificate x.  It is only
                necessary to maintain this field if policy qualifiers are
                returned to the application.  See Section 6.1.5, step (g).</t>
              </li>
              <li>
                <t>The <tt>expected_policy_set</tt> contains one or more
                policy OIDs that would satisfy this policy in the certificate
                x+1.</t>
              </li>
            </ol>
            <t>
The

            <t>The initial value of the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> is a
            single node with <tt>valid_policy</tt> anyPolicy, an empty
            <tt>qualifier_set</tt>, and an <tt>expected_policy_set</tt> with
            the single value anyPolicy.  This node is considered to be at
            depth zero.  </t>
            <t>
The
            <t>The graph additionally satisfies the following invariants:  </t>

            <ul spacing="normal">
              <li>
                <t>For any depth x and policy OID P-OID, there is at most one
                node at depth x whose <tt>valid_policy</tt> is P-OID.</t>
              </li>
              <li>
                <t>The <tt>expected_policy_set</tt> of a node whose
                <tt>valid_policy</tt> is anyPolicy is always {anyPolicy}.</t>
              </li>
              <li>
                <t>A node at depth x whose <tt>valid_policy</tt> is anyPolicy,
                except for the one at depth zero, always has exactly one
                parent: a node at depth x-1 whose <tt>valid_policy</tt> is
                also anyPolicy.</t>
              </li>
              <li>
                <t>Each node at depth greater than 0 has either one or more
                parent nodes whose <tt>valid_policy</tt> is not anyPolicy, anyPolicy or
                a single parent node whose <tt>valid_policy</tt> is anyPolicy.
                That is, a node cannot simultaneously be a child of both
                anyPolicy and some non-anyPolicy OID.</t>
              </li>
            </ul>
            <t>
<xref
            <t><xref target="graph-initial"/> is a graphic representation of
            the initial state of the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt>.  Additional
            figures will use this format to describe changes in the
            <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> during path processing.  </t>
            <figure anchor="graph-initial">
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      </blockquote>
      </section>
      <section anchor="updates-to-section-613">
        <name>Updates to Section 6.1.3</name>
        <t>This update
        <t>The following replaces steps (d), (e), and (f) of in <xref
        section="6.1.3" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/> with the following text:</t> target="RFC5280"/>:
	</t>
<blockquote>
        <ol spacing="normal" type="(%c)" start="4"><li>
            <t>If the certificate policies extension is present in the
            certificate and the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> is not NULL,
            process the policy information by performing the following steps
            in order: </t>
            <ol spacing="normal" type="(%d)"><li>
                <t>For each policy P not equal to anyPolicy in the certificate
                policies extension, let P-OID denote the OID for policy P and
                P-Q denote the qualifier set for policy P.  Perform the
                following steps in order: </t>
                <ol spacing="normal" type="(%i)"><li>
                    <t>Let <tt>parent_nodes</tt> be the nodes at depth i-1 in
                    the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> where P-OID is in the
                    <tt>expected_policy_set</tt>.  If <tt>parent_nodes</tt> is
                    not empty, create a child node as follows: set the
                    <tt>valid_policy</tt> to P-OID, set the
                    <tt>qualifier_set</tt> to P-Q, set the
                    <tt>expected_policy_set</tt> to {P-OID}, and set the
                    parent nodes to <tt>parent_nodes</tt>.  </t>
                    <t>
For
                    <t>For example, consider a <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt>
                    with a node of depth i-1 where the
                    <tt>expected_policy_set</tt> is {Gold, White}, White} and a
                    second node where the <tt>expected_policy_set</tt> is
                    {Gold, Yellow}.  Assume the certificate policies Gold and
                    Silver appear in the certificate policies extension of
                    certificate i.  The Gold policy is matched, but the Silver
                    policy is not.  This rule will generate a child node of
                    depth i for the Gold policy.  The result is shown as <xref
                    target="exact-match"/>.  </t>

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|  {Gold, White}  |      |  {Gold, Yellow} |
+-----------------+      +-----------------+
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             \                 /
              \               /
               v             v
             +-----------------+
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             +-----------------+
             |       {}        |   depth i
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                    </figure>
                  </li>
                  <li>
                    <t>If there was no match in step (i) and the
                    <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> includes a node of depth i-1
                    with the <tt>valid_policy</tt> anyPolicy, generate a child
                    node with the following values: set the
                    <tt>valid_policy</tt> to P-OID, set the
                    <tt>qualifier_set</tt> to P-Q, set the
                    <tt>expected_policy_set</tt> to {P-OID}, and set the
                    parent node to the anyPolicy node at depth i-1.  </t>
                    <t>
For
                    <t>For example, consider a <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt>
                    with a node of depth i-1 where the <tt>valid_policy</tt>
                    is anyPolicy.  Assume the certificate policies Gold and
                    Silver appear in the certificate policies extension of
                    certificate i.  The Gold policy does not have a qualifier,
                    but the Silver policy has the qualifier Q-Silver.  If Gold
                    and Silver were not matched in (i) above, this rule will
                    generate two child nodes of depth i, one for each policy.
                    The result is shown as <xref
                    target="unmatched-anypolicy"/>.  </t>
                    <figure anchor="unmatched-anypolicy">
                      <name>Processing Unmatched Policies when When a Leaf Node Specifies anyPolicy</name>
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              +-----------------+
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              +-----------------+
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                /             \
               /               \
              v                 v
+-----------------+          +-----------------+
|      Gold       |          |     Silver      |
+-----------------+          +-----------------+
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+-----------------+          +-----------------+
|     {Gold}      |          |    {Silver}     |
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                      </artset>
                    </figure>
                  </li>
                </ol>
              </li>
              <li>
                <t>If the certificate policies extension includes the policy
                anyPolicy with the qualifier set AP-Q and either (a)
                <tt>inhibit_anyPolicy</tt> is greater than 0 or (b) i&lt;n and
                the certificate is self-issued, then: </t>
                <t>
For
                <t>For each policy OID P-OID (including anyPolicy) which that
                appears in the <tt>expected_policy_set</tt> of some node in
                the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> for depth i-1, if P-OID does
                not appear as the <tt>valid_policy</tt> of some node at depth
                i, create a single child node with the following values: set
                the <tt>valid_policy</tt> to P-OID, set the
                <tt>qualifier_set</tt> to AP-Q, set the
                <tt>expected_policy_set</tt> to {P-OID}, and set the parents
                to the nodes at depth i-1 where P-OID appears in
                <tt>expected_policy_set</tt>.  </t>
                <t>
This
                <t>This is equivalent to running step (1) above, above as if the
                certificate policies extension contained a policy with OID
                P-OID and qualifier set AP-Q.  </t>
                <t>
For
                <t>For example, consider a <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> with a
                node of depth i-1 where the <tt>expected_policy_set</tt> is
                {Gold, Silver}, Silver} and a second node of depth i-1 where the
                <tt>expected_policy_set</tt> is {Gold}.  Assume anyPolicy
                appears in the certificate policies extension of certificate i
                with policy qualifiers AP-Q, but Gold and Silver do not
                appear.  This rule will generate two child nodes of depth i,
                one for each policy.  The result is shown below as <xref
                target="anypolicy-in-extension"/>.  </t>
                <figure anchor="anypolicy-in-extension">
                  <name>Processing Unmatched Policies When the Certificate Policies Extension Specifies anyPolicy</name>
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                </figure>
              </li>
              <li>
                <t>If there is a node in the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> of depth i-1 or less without any child nodes, delete that node.
Repeat this step until there are no nodes of depth i-1 or less without children.      </t>
                <t>
For example, consider the valid_policy_graph <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> shown in <xref target="pruning"/> below.
The two nodes at depth i-1 that are marked with an 'X' have no children, and they are deleted.
Applying this rule to the resulting graph will cause the nodes at depth i-2 that is marked with a 'Y' to be deleted.
In the resulting graph, there are no nodes of depth i-1 or less without children, and this step is complete.      </t>
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              </li>
            </ol>
          </li>

          <li>
            <t>If the certificate policies extension is not present, set the
            <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> to NULL.</t>
          </li>
          <li>

            <t>Verify that either <tt>explicit_policy</tt> is greater than 0
            or the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> is not equal to NULL;</t> NULL.</t>
          </li>
        </ol>
      </blockquote>

      <t>The text following step (f) in <xref section="6.1.3" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/>, beginning with "If any of steps (a), (b), (c), or (f) fails", is left unmodified.</t>

      </section>
      <section anchor="updates-to-section-614">
        <name>Updates to Section 6.1.4</name>
        <t>This update
        <t>The following replaces step (b) of in <xref section="6.1.4" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/> with the following text:</t> target="RFC5280"/>:</t>
<blockquote>

  <ol spacing="normal" type="(%c)" start="2"><li>
            <t>If a policy mappings extension is present, then for each issuerDomainPolicy ID-P in the policy mappings extension:  </t>
            <ol spacing="normal" type="(%d)"><li>
                <t>If the policy_mapping <tt>policy_mapping</tt> variable is greater than 0 and there is a
node in the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> of depth i where ID-P is the
valid_policy,
<tt>valid_policy</tt>, set <tt>expected_policy_set</tt> to the set of
subjectDomainPolicy values that are specified as
equivalent to ID-P by the policy mappings extension.</t>
              </li>
              <li>
                <t>If the policy_mapping <tt>policy_mapping</tt> variable is greater than 0, 0 and
no node of depth i in the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> has a
<tt>valid_policy</tt> of ID-P, ID-P but there is a node of depth i with a
<tt>valid_policy</tt> of anyPolicy, then generate a child node of
the node of depth i-1 that has a <tt>valid_policy</tt> of anyPolicy
as follows:      </t>
                <ol spacing="normal" type="(%i)"><li>
                    <t>set the <tt>valid_policy</tt> to ID-P;</t>
                  </li>
                  <li>
                    <t>set the <tt>qualifier_set</tt> to the qualifier set of the
policy anyPolicy in the certificate policies
extension of certificate i; and</t>
                  </li>
                  <li>
                    <t>set the <tt>expected_policy_set</tt> to the set of
subjectDomainPolicy values that are specified as
equivalent to ID-P by the policy mappings extension.</t>
                  </li>
                </ol>
              </li>
              <li>
                <t>If the <tt>policy_mapping</tt> variable is equal to 0:      </t>
                <ol spacing="normal" type="(%i)"><li>
                    <t>delete the node, if any, of depth i in the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> where ID-P is the <tt>valid_policy</tt>.</t>
                  </li>
                  <li>
                    <t>If there is a node in the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> of depth
i-1 or less without any child nodes, delete that
node.  Repeat this step until there are no nodes of
depth i-1 or less without children.</t>
                  </li>
                </ol>
              </li>
            </ol>
          </li>
        </ol>
</blockquote>
      </section>
      <section anchor="updates-to-section-615">
        <name>Updates to Section 6.1.5</name>
        <t>This update
        <t>The following replaces step (g) of in <xref section="6.1.5" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/> with the following text:</t> target="RFC5280"/>:</t>
<blockquote>
        <ol spacing="normal" type="(%c)" start="7"><li>
            <t>Calculate the <tt>user_constrained_policy_set</tt> as follows.
The <tt>user_constrained_policy_set</tt> is a set of policy OIDs, along with associated policy qualifiers.  </t>
            <ol spacing="normal" type="(%d)"><li>
                <t>If the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> is NULL, set <tt>valid_policy_node_set</tt> to the empty set.</t>
              </li>
              <li>
                <t>If the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> is not NULL, set <tt>valid_policy_node_set</tt> to the set of policy nodes
whose <tt>valid_policy</tt> is not anyPolicy and
whose parent list is a single node with <tt>valid_policy</tt> of anyPolicy.</t>
              </li>
              <li>
                <t>If the <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> is not NULL and contains a node of depth n with the <tt>valid_policy</tt> anyPolicy, add it to <tt>valid_policy_node_set</tt>.</t>
              </li>
              <li>
                <t>Compute <tt>authority_constrained_policy_set</tt>, a set of policy OIDs and associated qualifiers as follows. For each node in <tt>valid_policy_node_set</tt>:      </t>
                <ol spacing="normal" type="(%i)"><li>
                    <t>Add the node's <tt>valid_policy</tt> to <tt>authority_constrained_policy_set</tt>.</t>
                  </li>
                  <li>
                    <t>Collect all qualifiers in the node, its ancestors, and descendants and associate them with <tt>valid_policy</tt>. Applications that do not use policy qualifiers MAY <bcp14>MAY</bcp14> skip this step to simplify processing.</t>
                  </li>
                </ol>
              </li>
              <li>
                <t>Set <tt>user_constrained_policy_set</tt> to <tt>authority_constrained_policy_set</tt>.</t>
              </li>
              <li>
                <t>If the user-initial-policy-set is not anyPolicy:      </t>
                <ol spacing="normal" type="(%i)"><li>
                    <t>Remove any elements of <tt>user_constrained_policy_set</tt> which that do not appear in user-initial-policy-set.</t>
                  </li>
                  <li>
                    <t>If anyPolicy appears in <tt>authority_constrained_policy_set</tt> with qualifiers AP-Q, for each OID P-OID in user-initial-policy-set which that does not appear in <tt>user_constrained_policy_set</tt>, add P-OID with qualifiers AP-Q to <tt>user_constrained_policy_set</tt>.</t>
                  </li>
                </ol>
              </li>
            </ol>
          </li>
        </ol>
        <t>Additionally, this update replaces
</blockquote>
        <t>In addition, the final paragraph in <xref section="6.1.5"
        sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/> is updated as follows:</t>

        <t>OLD:</t>
        <ul empty="true">
          <li>
            <t>If
        <blockquote><t>If either (1) the value of <tt>explicit_policy</tt>
        variable is greater than zero or (2) the <tt>valid_policy_tree</tt> is
        not NULL, then path processing has succeeded.</t>
          </li>
        </ul> succeeded.</t></blockquote>

        <t>NEW:</t>
        <ul empty="true">
          <li>
            <t>If
        <blockquote><t>If either (1) the value of <tt>explicit_policy</tt> is
        greater than
zero zero, or (2) the <tt>user_constrained_policy_set</tt> is
        not empty, then path processing has succeeded.</t>
          </li>
        </ul> succeeded.</t></blockquote>

      </section>
      <section anchor="update-outputs">
        <name>Updates to Section 6.1.6</name>
        <t>This update
        <t>The following replaces <xref section="6.1.6" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/> with the following text:</t>
        <ul empty="true">
          <li> target="RFC5280"/>:</t>

	<blockquote>
          <t>If path processing succeeds, the procedure terminates, returning
          a success indication together with the final value of the
          <tt>user_constrained_policy_set</tt>, the
          <tt>working_public_key</tt>, the
          <tt>working_public_key_algorithm</tt>, and the
          <tt>working_public_key_parameters</tt>.</t>
          <t>Note that the original procedure described in <xref
          target="RFC5280"/> included a <tt>valid_policy_tree</tt> structure
          as part of the output. This structure grows exponentially in the
          size of the input, so computing it risks denial-of-service
          vulnerabilities in X.509-based applications, such as <xref
          target="CVE-2023-0464"/> and <xref
          target="CVE-2023-23524"/>. Accordingly, this output is
          deprecated. Computing this structure is NOT RECOMMENDED.</t> <bcp14>NOT
          RECOMMENDED</bcp14>.</t>
          <t>An implementation which that requires <tt>valid_policy_tree</tt> for
          compatibility with legacy systems may compute it from
          <tt>valid_policy_graph</tt> by recursively duplicating every
          multi-parent node. This may be done on-demand when the calling
          application first requests this output. However, this computation
          may consume exponential time and memory, so such implementations SHOULD
          <bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14> mitigate denial-of-service attacks in other ways, such
          as by limiting the depth or size of the tree.</t>
          </li>
        </ul>
	</blockquote>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section anchor="other-mitigations">
      <name>Other Mitigations</name>
      <t>X.509 implementations that are unable to switch to the policy graph structure
SHOULD
<bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14> mitigate the denial-of-service attack in other ways. This section
describes alternate mitigation and partial mitigation strategies.</t>
      <section anchor="verify-signatures-first">
        <name>Verify Signatures First</name>
        <t>X.509 validators SHOULD <bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14> verify signatures in certification paths before or in
conjunction with policy verification. This limits the attack to entities in
control of CA certificates. For some applications, this may be sufficient to
mitigate the attack. However, other applications may still be impacted. For impacted, for
example:</t>
       <ul spacing="normal">
          <li>
            <t>Any application that evaluates an untrusted PKI, such as a
            hosting provider that evaluates a customer-supplied PKI</t>
          </li>
          <li>
            <t>Any application that evaluates an otherwise trusted PKI, but where PKI that
            includes untrusted entities have technically-constrained with technically constrained
            intermediate certificates where certificates. If the intermediates do not constrain
            policy mapping and or path length are unconstrained.</t> length, those entities may be able to
            perform this attack.</t>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </section>
      <section anchor="limit-certificate-depth">
        <name>Limit Certificate Depth</name>
        <t>The policy tree grows exponentially in the depth of a certification
        path, so limiting the depth and certificate size can mitigate the
        attack.</t>
        <t>However, this option may not be viable for all applications. Too
        low of a limit may reject existing paths which that the application wishes
        to accept. Too high of a limit may still admit a DoS denial-of-service attack for the
        application. By modifying the example in <xref
        target="exponential-growth"/> to increase the number of policies
        asserted in each certificate, an attacker could still achieve O(N^(depth/2))
        O(N<sup>(depth/2)</sup>) scaling.</t>
      </section>
      <section anchor="limit-policy-tree-size">
        <name>Limit Policy Tree Size</name>
        <t>The attack can be mitigated by limiting the number of nodes in the
        policy tree, tree and rejecting the certification path if this limit is
        reached. This limit should be set high enough to still admit existing
        valid certification paths for the
application, application but low enough to no
        longer admit a DoS denial-of-service attack.</t>
      </section>
      <section anchor="inhibit-policy-mapping">
        <name>Inhibit Policy Mapping</name>
        <t>If policy mapping is disabled via the initial-policy-mapping-inhibit setting
(see <xref section="6.1.1" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/>), the attack is mitigated. This also
significantly simplifies the X.509 implementation, which reduces the risk of
other security bugs. However, this will break compatibility with any existing
certification paths which that rely on policy mapping.</t>
        <t>To facilitate this mitigation, certificate authorities SHOULD NOT <bcp14>SHOULD NOT</bcp14> issue
certificates with the policy mappings extension (<xref section="4.2.1.5" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/>). Applications maintaining policies for accepted trust anchors are
RECOMMENDED
<bcp14>RECOMMENDED</bcp14> to forbid this extension in participating certificate authorities.</t>
      </section>
      <section anchor="disable-policy-checking">
        <name>Disable Policy Checking</name>

        <t>An X.509 validator can mitigate this attack by disabling policy validation
entirely. This may be viable for applications which that do not require policy
validation. In this case, critical policy-related extensions, notably the policy
constraints extension (<xref section="4.2.1.11" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/>), MUST <bcp14>MUST</bcp14> be treated as unrecognized
extensions as described in <xref section="4.2" sectionFormat="of" target="RFC5280"/> and be rejected.</t>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section removeInRFC="true" anchor="implementation-status">
      <name>Implementation Status</name>
      <t>This section records the status of known implementations of the
protocol defined by this specification at the time of posting of
this Internet-Draft, and is based on a proposal described in
RFC 7942.  The description of implementations in this section is
intended to assist the IETF in its decision processes in
progressing drafts to RFCs.  Please note that the listing of any
individual implementation here does not imply endorsement by the
IETF.  Furthermore, no effort has been spent to verify the
information presented here that was supplied by IETF contributors.
This is not intended as, and must not be construed to be, a
catalog of available implementations or their features.  Readers
are advised to note that other implementations may exist.</t>
      <t>According to RFC 7942, "this will allow reviewers and working
groups to assign due consideration to documents that have the
benefit of running code, which may serve as evidence of valuable
experimentation and feedback that have made the implemented
protocols more mature.  It is up to the individual working groups
to use this information as they see fit".</t>
      <t>The following projects adopted the concept outlined in this document:</t>
      <ul spacing="normal">
        <li>
          <t><xref target="BoringSSL"/></t>
        </li>
        <li>
          <t><xref target="LibreSSL"/></t>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </section>
    <section anchor="security-considerations">
      <name>Security Considerations</name>
      <t><xref target="dos"/> discusses how <xref target="RFC5280"/>'s the policy
      tree algorithm in <xref target="RFC5280"/> can lead to denial-of-service vulnerabilities in
      X.509-based applications, such as <xref target="CVE-2023-0464"/> and
      <xref target="CVE-2023-23524"/>.</t>
      <t><xref target="updates"/> replaces this algorithm to avoid this
      issue. As discussed in <xref target="policy-graph"/>, the new structure
      scales linearly with the input. This means input limits in X.509
      validators will more naturally bound processing time, thus avoiding
      these vulnerabilities.</t>
    </section>
    <section anchor="iana-considerations">
      <name>IANA Considerations</name>
      <t>This document has no IANA actions.</t>
    </section>
  </middle>
  <back>
    <references>
      <name>References</name>
      <references anchor="sec-normative-references">
        <name>Normative References</name>
        <reference anchor="RFC5280">
          <front>
            <title>Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile</title>
            <author fullname="D. Cooper" initials="D." surname="Cooper"/>
            <author fullname="S. Santesson" initials="S." surname="Santesson"/>
            <author fullname="S. Farrell" initials="S." surname="Farrell"/>
            <author fullname="S. Boeyen" initials="S." surname="Boeyen"/>
            <author fullname="R. Housley" initials="R." surname="Housley"/>
            <author fullname="W. Polk" initials="W." surname="Polk"/>
            <date month="May" year="2008"/>
            <abstract>
              <t>This memo profiles the X.509 v3 certificate and X.509 v2 certificate revocation list (CRL) for use in the Internet. An overview of this approach and model is provided as an introduction. The X.509 v3 certificate format is described in detail, with additional information regarding the format and semantics of Internet name forms. Standard certificate extensions are described and two Internet-specific extensions are defined. A set of required certificate extensions is specified. The X.509 v2 CRL format is described in detail along with standard and Internet-specific extensions. An algorithm for X.509 certification path validation is described. An ASN.1 module and examples are provided in the appendices. [STANDARDS-TRACK]</t>
            </abstract>
          </front>
          <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="5280"/>
          <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC5280"/>
        </reference>
        <reference anchor="RFC2119">
          <front>
            <title>Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels</title>
            <author fullname="S. Bradner" initials="S." surname="Bradner"/>
            <date month="March" year="1997"/>
            <abstract>
              <t>In many standards track documents several words are used to signify the requirements in the specification. These words are often capitalized. This document defines these words as they should be interpreted in IETF documents. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.</t>
            </abstract>
          </front>
          <seriesInfo name="BCP" value="14"/>
          <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="2119"/>
          <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC2119"/>
        </reference>
        <reference anchor="RFC8174">
          <front>
            <title>Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words</title>
            <author fullname="B. Leiba" initials="B." surname="Leiba"/>
            <date month="May" year="2017"/>
            <abstract>
              <t>RFC 2119 specifies common key words that may be used in protocol specifications. This document aims to reduce the ambiguity by clarifying that only UPPERCASE usage of the key words have the defined special meanings.</t>
            </abstract>
          </front>
          <seriesInfo name="BCP" value="14"/>
          <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8174"/>
          <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8174"/>
        </reference>

	<xi:include href="https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.5280.xml"/>
	<xi:include href="https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.2119.xml"/>
	<xi:include href="https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8174.xml"/>

      </references>
      <references anchor="sec-informative-references">
        <name>Informative References</name>

        <reference anchor="X.509"> anchor="X.509" target="https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.509">
          <front>
            <title>Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection - The Directory: Public-key and attribute certificate frameworks</title>
            <author>
              <organization>International Telecommunications Union</organization>
              <organization>ITU-T</organization>
            </author>
            <date year="2019" month="October"/>
          </front>
          <seriesInfo name="ITU-T" value="Recommendation X.509"/> name="ITU-T Recommendation" value="X.509"/>
        </reference>

        <reference anchor="CVE-2023-0464" target="https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0464">
          <front>
            <title>Excessive Resource Usage Verifying X.509 Policy Constraints</title>
            <author>
              <organization/>
              <organization>CVE</organization>
            </author>
            <date year="2023" month="March"/>
          </front>
	  <refcontent>CVE-2023-0464</refcontent>
        </reference>

        <reference anchor="CVE-2023-23524" target="https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-23524">
          <front>
            <title>Processing a maliciously crafted certificate may lead to a denial-of-service</title>
            <author>
              <organization/>
              <organization>CVE</organization>
            </author>
            <date year="2023" month="February"/>
          </front>
	  <refcontent>CVE-2023-23524</refcontent>
        </reference>
        <reference anchor="BoringSSL" target="https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl">
          <front>
            <title>BoringSSL</title>
            <author>
              <organization/>
            </author>
            <date year="2024" month="January"/>
          </front>
        </reference>
        <reference anchor="LibreSSL" target="https://www.libressl.org/">
          <front>
            <title>LibreSSL</title>
            <author>
              <organization/>
            </author>
            <date year="2024" month="January"/>
          </front>
        </reference>
        <reference anchor="RFC8446">
          <front>
            <title>The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3</title>
            <author fullname="E. Rescorla" initials="E." surname="Rescorla"/>
            <date month="August" year="2018"/>
            <abstract>
              <t>This document specifies version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. TLS allows client/server applications to communicate over the Internet in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery.</t>
              <t>This document updates RFCs 5705 and 6066, and obsoletes RFCs 5077, 5246, and 6961. This document also specifies new requirements for TLS 1.2 implementations.</t>
            </abstract>
          </front>
          <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8446"/>
          <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8446"/>
        </reference>

        <xi:include href="https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8446.xml"/>

      </references>
    </references>
    <?line 802?>

<section numbered="false" anchor="acknowledgements">
      <name>Acknowledgements</name>
      <t>The author thanks Bob Beck, Adam Langley, Matt Mueller, and Ryan Sleevi <contact fullname="Bob Beck"/>, <contact
      fullname="Adam Langley"/>, <contact fullname="Matt Mueller"/>, and
      <contact fullname="Ryan Sleevi"/> for many valuable discussions that led
      to discovering this issue, understanding it, and developing the
      mitigation. The author also thanks Martin Thomson and Job
Snijders <contact fullname="Martin Thomson"/>,
      <contact fullname="Job Snijders"/>, and <contact fullname="John
      Scudder"/> for their review and feedback on this document.</t>
    </section>
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