AddTrust External CA Root certificate has expired! Cannot update packages..

[mjuhanne]

It seems the CA root certificate that PFSense pkg server uses has expired.

"System / Package Manager / Available Packages" shows "Unable to retrieve package information."

In root shell:

[2.4.5-RELEASE][root@xxxxxxx.dy.fi]/root: pkg update 
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
Certificate verification failed for /C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External CA Root
34404134216:error:14090086:SSL routines:ssl3_get_server_certificate:certificate verify failed:/build/ce-crossbuild-245/sources/FreeBSD-src/crypto/openssl/ssl/s3_clnt.c:1269:
Certificate verification failed for /C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External CA Root
34404134216:error:14090086:SSL routines:ssl3_get_server_certificate:certificate verify failed:/build/ce-crossbuild-245/sources/FreeBSD-src/crypto/openssl/ssl/s3_clnt.c:1269:
Certificate verification failed for /C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External CA Root
34404134216:error:14090086:SSL routines:ssl3_get_server_certificate:certificate verify failed:/build/ce-crossbuild-245/sources/FreeBSD-src/crypto/openssl/ssl/s3_clnt.c:1269:
pkg: https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_4_5_amd64-core/meta.txz: Authentication error
repository pfSense-core has no meta file, using default settings
....

Using openssl from SSH console we can see that the CA certificate has expired:

[2.4.5-RELEASE][root@xxxxxxxx.dy.fi]/root: openssl s_client -connect files00.netgate.com:443 
CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=3 C = SE, O = AddTrust AB, OU = AddTrust External TTP Network, CN = AddTrust External CA Root
verify error:num=10:certificate has expired
notAfter=May 30 10:48:38 2020 GMT
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/OU=Domain Control Validated/OU=PositiveSSL Wildcard/CN=*.pfsense.org
   i:/C=GB/ST=Greater Manchester/L=Salford/O=COMODO CA Limited/CN=COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
 1 s:/C=GB/ST=Greater Manchester/L=Salford/O=COMODO CA Limited/CN=COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
   i:/C=GB/ST=Greater Manchester/L=Salford/O=COMODO CA Limited/CN=COMODO RSA Certification Authority
 2 s:/C=GB/ST=Greater Manchester/L=Salford/O=COMODO CA Limited/CN=COMODO RSA Certification Authority
   i:/C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External CA Root
---
Server certificate
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
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-----END CERTIFICATE-----
subject=/OU=Domain Control Validated/OU=PositiveSSL Wildcard/CN=*.pfsense.org
issuer=/C=GB/ST=Greater Manchester/L=Salford/O=COMODO CA Limited/CN=COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
---
No client certificate CA names sent
Peer signing digest: SHA512
Server Temp Key: ECDH, P-256, 256 bits
---
SSL handshake has read 5216 bytes and written 433 bytes
---
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
Server public key is 2048 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : TLSv1.2
    Cipher    : ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
    Session-ID: 72C46655130B4FEBF6E7410902B06414095A4F0046E2A55F84F3ADE9AB34DC1A
    Session-ID-ctx: 
    Master-Key: 4A204497F3E2C53906466A0376BB9A08EF8A4AD64B8867CDF3A6682FD240E52C24D89FEEDE1044D97E8979A337BDFF27
    Key-Arg   : None
    PSK identity: None
    PSK identity hint: None
    SRP username: None
    Start Time: 1590839382
    Timeout   : 300 (sec)
    Verify return code: 10 (certificate has expired)
---
closed

First I thought my system date was incorrect, but via google I can see that the AddTrust CA certificate will/has indeed expired today!
https://thesslonline.com/blog/sectigo-addtrust-external-ca-root-expiring-may-30-2020

How can I force the pkg update now and also install additional packages?

[darckense]

Thank you! I just did a clean re-install on my device due to some virtualisation issues and got half way through when package manager appeared to fall over. At least I know I'm not going mad now, though I have wasted the last 4 hours!

Is there a way of manually getting the appropriate packages, wget style?

[cchaduka]

@mjuhanne Just got bitten by this same issue. Eagerly waiting for a fix. Restoring old apliance for now.

[fishbone222]

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[fishbone222]

As mentioned here: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/154033/unable-to-download-available-package-list-cert-expired

I downloaded the needed Packages by faking the date to make AddTrust revalid.
But that's not at all a solution. Barely a workaround.

[darckense]

@fishbone222 said in AddTrust External CA Root certificate has expired! Cannot update packages..:

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/154033/unable-to-download-available-package-list-cert-expired

That's useful thanks, worked for me! Seems problem is fixed now.