[BUG][RHEL-9] Failed to decrypt certificate if FIPS is enabled

[yuxisun1217]

Describe the bug: A clear and concise description of what the bug is.
In RHEL-9, if use WALA as provision agent(no cloud-init) and FIPS is enabled in the image, the VM provision failed because Failed to decrypt /var/lib/waagent/Certificates.p7m.

2022-05-31T09:24:07.349895Z VERBOSE Daemon Daemon HTTP connection [GET] [/machine/40519e2d-4b98-4175-983a-277dc2f49e03/fadb1d67%2Dc46a%2D4f7e%2D9fe6%2D5aca4e50cbb2.%5Fwala9fips%2Dwala3?comp=config&type=sharedConfig&incarnation=1] [None] [{'x-ms-agent-name': 'WALinuxAgent', 'x-ms-version': '2012-11-30', 'Connection': 'close', 'User-Agent': 'WALinuxAgent/2.7.0.6'}]
2022-05-31T09:24:07.385196Z VERBOSE Daemon Daemon [HTTP Response] Status Code 200
2022-05-31T09:24:07.395768Z VERBOSE Daemon Daemon HTTP connection [GET] [/machine/40519e2d-4b98-4175-983a-277dc2f49e03/fadb1d67%2Dc46a%2D4f7e%2D9fe6%2D5aca4e50cbb2.%5Fwala9fips%2Dwala3?comp=certificates&incarnation=1] [None] [{'x-ms-agent-name': 'WALinuxAgent', 'x-ms-version': '2012-11-30', 'x-ms-cipher-name': 'DES_EDE3_CBC', 'x-ms-guest-agent-public-x509-cert': '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', 'Connection': 'close', 'User-Agent': 'WALinuxAgent/2.7.0.6'}]
2022-05-31T09:24:07.493235Z VERBOSE Daemon Daemon [HTTP Response] Status Code 200
2022-05-31T09:24:07.642123Z ERROR Daemon Daemon Failed to decrypt /var/lib/waagent/Certificates.p7m (return code: 1)
[stdout]

[stderr]
Error decrypting CMS structure
80DB9D812D7F0000:error:0308010C:digital envelope routines:inner_evp_generic_fetch:unsupported:crypto/evp/evp_fetch.c:349:Global default library context, Algorithm (DES-EDE3-CBC : 27), Properties ()
80DB9D812D7F0000:error:17000065:CMS routines:ossl_cms_EncryptedContent_init_bio:cipher initialisation error:crypto/cms/cms_enc.c:78:

Distro and WALinuxAgent details (please complete the following information):

• Distro and Version: RHEL-9.1
• openssl-3.0.1-27.el9_0.x86_64
• WALinuxAgent version:

WALinuxAgent-2.7.0.6 running on rhel 9.1
Python: 3.9.10
Goal state agent: 2.7.0.6

Steps

1. Create a RHEL-9 VM on Azure. Enable FIPS(fips-mode-setup --enable). Remove cloud-init package. Set OS.EnableFIPS=y in /etc/waagent.conf
2. Deprovision it as a generalized image
3. Create a new VM from this image

Log file attached
If possible, please provide the full /var/log/waagent.log file to help us understand the problem better and get the context of the issue.
waagent.log

[tomato42]

The issue is that the Certificates.p7m uses rsaEncryption (PKCS#1 v1.5 encryption) combined with 3DES-CBC cipher, neither of which are supported in the FIPS provider on RHEL-9.1.

Azure should generate the file using RSA-OAEP encryption combined with AES128-CBC or AES256-CBC

[devdatt9129]

I am facing a similar issue, wherein certificate creation fails while on FIPS enabled RHEL 9 machine. I tried to enable the FIPS providers as well but it is failing to load the fips provider. Has someone succeeded to resolve this issue?

[tomato42]

The issue is that Azure is not FIPS compatible, there's nothing that OpenSSL or Red Hat can do to retain FIPS compliance and allow processing of those messages. Please contact Azure support about this issue.