Certificate expired error when trying to clean

[snipem]

Version of sucks built directly from master branch:

~/work/sucks  $ pip show sucks                                                                                                                                
Name: sucks                                                                                                                                                   
Version: 0.9.3                                                                                                                                                
Summary: a library for controlling certain robot vacuums                                                                                                      
Home-page: https://github.com/wpietri/sucks                                                                                                                   
Author: William Pietri                                                                                                                                        
Author-email: [email protected]                                                                                                                    
License: GPL-3.0
Location: /home/user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages

Config:

~/work/sucks  $ cat ~/.config/sucks.conf                                                                                                                     
email=***
password_hash=***
device_id=***
country=de
continent=eu

Error messages?

~/work/sucks  $ sucks clean 1                                                                                                                                
sleekxmpp.basexmpp WARNING  fulljid property deprecated. Use boundjid.resource
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream ERROR    Certificate has expired.
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream WARNING  Failed to send b"<stream:stream to='ecouser.net' xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams' xmlns='jabber:client'
xml:lang='en' version='1.0'>"
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream ERROR    Socket Error #9: Bad file descriptor
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream ERROR    Certificate has expired.
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream WARNING  Failed to send b"<stream:stream to='ecouser.net' xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams' xmlns='jabber:client'
xml:lang='en' version='1.0'>"
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream ERROR    Socket Error #9: Bad file descriptor
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream ERROR    Certificate has expired.
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream WARNING  Failed to send b"<stream:stream to='ecouser.net' xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams' xmlns='jabber:client'
xml:lang='en' version='1.0'>"
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream ERROR    Socket Error #9: Bad file descriptor
^C
Aborted!
^CException ignored in: <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python3.6/threading.py'>                                                                        
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/threading.py", line 1294, in _shutdown
    t.join()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/threading.py", line 1056, in join
    self._wait_for_tstate_lock()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/threading.py", line 1072, in _wait_for_tstate_lock                                                                              
    elif lock.acquire(block, timeout):
KeyboardInterrupt

Is this a known problem? Is it restricted to just the European or German endpoint? Is there a workaround?

[wpietri]

Can you tell what host is involved? I think the first thing to do is to try to connect to the host in question with some other tool and see if the certificate really is expired.

[snipem]

Thanks for the response.

I did this by editing sleekxmp to also output the URL in question:

    if not_after <= now:
        raise CertificateError(
                'Certificate for %s has expired.' % (expected))

in file sleekxmpp/xmlstream/cert.py.

Here's the output:

$ sucks clean 1                                                                                              
sleekxmpp.basexmpp WARNING  fulljid property deprecated. Use boundjid.resource
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream ERROR    Certificate for ecouser.net has expired.
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream WARNING  Failed to send b"<stream:stream to='ecouser.net' xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams' xmlns='jabber:client' xml:lang='en' version='1.0'>"
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream ERROR    Socket Error #9: Bad file descriptor
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream ERROR    Certificate for ecouser.net has expired.
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream WARNING  Failed to send b"<stream:stream to='ecouser.net' xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams' xmlns='jabber:client' xml:lang='en' version='1.0'>"
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream ERROR    Socket Error #9: Bad file descriptor
^C
Aborted!
^CException ignored in: <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python3.6/threading.py'>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/threading.py", line 1294, in _shutdown
    t.join()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/threading.py", line 1056, in join
    self._wait_for_tstate_lock()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/threading.py", line 1072, in _wait_for_tstate_lock
    elif lock.acquire(block, timeout):
KeyboardInterrupt

So the url in question is ecouser.net. Unfortunately I can't tell if and which subdomain is used.

I tried numerous calls like curl https://msg-eu.ecouser.netall returned a valid certificate. But is the https certificate the one that is called? I would assume that the certificate error is deep down in the xmpp protocol.

[wpietri]

One way you could narrow it down would be to use Wireshark to capture traffic from your machine. That would let you see what's happening when; I think the certificate will be sent in the clear.

[ecpunk]

Same for me. I'm in the US, connecting to the US server. The cert was signed in Nov xx 2017 and expired Jan 20 2019. I actually just modified the python to print the start/end dates of the cert. I've just been working on this, so I'm not sure who the certificate issuer is yet. I am set up to capture, so please let me know if there is anything I can provide to help out. I'll keep working on it.

[snipem]

So it's up to Ecovacs to renew the certificate. For sucks as a 3rd party library the only option to get around this, is to not validate the certificate on connection. This would lower the security, but make the library work again.

[ecpunk]

Ok, looks like the bad cert is on pyasn1. Currently testing with pyasn1 0.4.5. I'll try something else after breakfast, but here is the output from the debug which is just a local cert validation, and below that is the TLS server response from ecovacs.

validity=Validity:
notBefore=Time:
utcTime=171123000000Z

notAfter=Time:
utcTime=190122235959Z

[wpietri]

Ah, that explains why I'm not having the problem. A warning I get when I run sucks:

sleekxmpp.xmlstream.cert WARNING  Could not find pyasn1 and pyasn1_modules. SSL certificate COULD NOT BE VERIFIED.

So a temporary workaround is perhaps to uninstall that module.

If we're sure this is a problem with the Ecovacs certificate, I can try reporting this to them as a problem.

[ecpunk]

It is definitely the sleekxmpp cert that is expired, so removing pyasn1 & _modules to not verify is the way to go as a workaround. I think you can close this most likely.

sleekxmpp.xmlstream.cert WARNING Could not find pyasn1 and pyasn1_modules. SSL certificate COULD NOT BE VERIFIED.
sleekxmpp.xmlstream.cert WARNING Could not find pyasn1 and pyasn1_modules. SSL certificate expiration COULD NOT BE VERIFIED.

Here is my vanilla Python 3.7 install with sucks for reference:

[wpietri]

Thanks, @ecpunk. When you say it's the sleekxmpp certificate, you mean that it's not an Ecovacs certificate, but rather something in the sleekxmpp library?

[snipem]

This is surprising I first saw this error with this golang library https://github.com/skburgart/go-vacbot that is basically a port of sucks. Since sucks had the same issue, I thought this was related to the backend.

~  $ cleanhome 10
2019/01/28 16:17:49 login successful
2019/01/28 16:17:49 get auth code successful
2019/01/28 16:17:53 get user access token successful
2019/01/28 16:17:54 starttls handshake: x509: certificate has expired or is not yet valid

So taking this into account I would say that it's not relate to python or sucks. Do we have clear evidence on that matter?