[keycloak-dev] Retrieving client's public IP not working with HTTPS
Stian Thorgersen
sthorger at redhat.com
Tue Jan 10 00:03:24 EST 2017
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On 6 January 2017 at 16:22, Olivier Bruylandt <olivier.bruylandt at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear,
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> I get an issue to get the wanted behavior when retrieving the client public
> IP.
> This is the situation :
> (all IP's have been anonymized)
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> - *infrastructure level*:
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> ----------- Reverse Proxy NGINX -----------------------------------
> KeyCloak
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> RP is listening on ports 80 & 443 (80 is redirected to 443)
> There is a public certificate signed by some external CA
> Nginx redirects to the 8443 (https) of KC (HTTP runs on 8080)
> Keycloak is set as standalone server on a Wildfly last version
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> - *Nginx config*
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> *server { listen 443; server_name ************;
> fastcgi_param HTTPS on; location / { add_header
> X-Cache-Status $upstream_cache_status; add_header X-Real-IP
> $remote_addr; add_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
> add_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
> more_set_headers 'Server: ******'; more_clear_headers
> 'X-Powered-By'; charset UTF-8; proxy_cache
> ******_cache; proxy_pass https://1.1.1.1:8443/
> <https://1.1.1.1:8443/>; }*
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> * ssl on; ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/private/**********.crt;
> ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/*************.key;
> ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on; ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/***********.pem;
> ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; ssl_stapling on;
> ssl_session_cache builtin:1000 shared:SSL:10m; add_header
> Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubdomains; preload";
> add_header X-Frame-Options "DENY"; ssl_ciphers
> 'EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH';*
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> - *Keycloak config* :
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> * <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:undertow:3.0">*
> * <buffer-cache name="default"/>*
> * <server name="default-server">*
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> * <http-listener name="default"
> proxy-address-forwarding="true" socket-binding="http"/>*
> * <https-listener name="https" security-realm="**********"
> socket-binding="https"/>*
> * <host name="default-host" alias="localhost">*
> * <location name="/" handler="welcome-content"/>*
> * </host>*
> * </server>*
> * <servlet-container name="default">*
> * <jsp-config/>*
> * <websockets/>*
> * </servlet-container>*
> * <handlers>*
> * <file name="welcome-content"
> path="${jboss.home.dir}/welcome-content"/>*
> * </handlers>*
> * </subsystem>*
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> The situation is that everything is working fine and smooth EXCEPT ... the
> fact that under sessions (and moreover for all user activities), the user
> IP I see is the one of the reverse proxy !!
> As I put in red in the KC config, this is what should do the trick to use
> the X-Forwarded-For header value to set the client's IP.
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> 15:07:55,104 WARN [org.keycloak.events] (default task-19)
> type=REFRESH_TOKEN_ERROR, realmId=***, clientId=account, userId=null,
> ipAddress=2.2.2.2, (...)
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> When I tried to reach KC on the 8080 (HTTP) listener (so the RP terminates
> the SSL connection and the one to KC server is made in HTTP), I got a whole
> bunch of warnings and errors due to HTTP -> HTTPS transport and also a HTTP
> connection towards the external social identity providers like Google, FB,
> etc. ... BUT I got at least the real IP as you might see hereunder :
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> 15:09:24,068 WARN [org.keycloak.events] (default task-29)
> type=LOGIN_ERROR, realmId=*****, clientId=account, userId=null,
> ipAddress=191.21.133.234, (...)
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> So the situation is that I will only get the "real" IP of the client only
> if it passes through the HTTP listener of KC which is not what I want as I
> would prefer getting to the HTTPS listener.
> I obviously also tried to add the same parameter (*proxy-address-forwarding
> = "true"*) in the HTTPS listener configuration but then, standalone.sh
> shows an error and refuses to start :
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> *14:24:30,621 INFO [org.jboss.modules] (main) JBoss Modules version
> 1.5.1.Final*
> *14:24:30,821 INFO [org.jboss.msc] (main) JBoss MSC version 1.2.6.Final*
> *14:24:30,888 INFO [org.jboss.as <http://org.jboss.as>] (MSC service
> thread 1-2) WFLYSRV0049: Keycloak 2.5.0.CR1 (WildFly Core 2.0.10.Final)
> starting*
> *14:24:31,597 ERROR [org.jboss.as.server] (Controller Boot Thread)
> WFLYSRV0055: Caught exception during boot:
> org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.ConfigurationPersistenceException:
> WFLYCTL0085: Failed to parse configuration*
> * at
> org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.XmlConfigurationPersister.load(
> XmlConfigurationPersister.java:131)*
> * at org.jboss.as.server.ServerService.boot(ServerService.java:356)*
> * at
> org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractControllerService$1.
> run(AbstractControllerService.java:299)*
> * at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)*
> *Caused by: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at
> [row,col]:[380,17]*
> *Message: WFLYCTL0376: Unexpected attribute 'proxy-address-forwarding'
> encountered. Valid attributes are: 'socket-binding, worker, buffer-pool,
> enabled, resolve-peer-address, security-realm, verify-client,
> enabled-cipher-suites, enabled-protocols, enable-http2, enable-spdy,
> ssl-session-cache-size, ssl-session-timeout, max-header-size,
> max-post-size, buffer-pipelined-data, max-parameters, max-headers,
> max-cookies, allow-encoded-slash, decode-url, url-charset,
> always-set-keep-alive, max-buffered-request-size,
> record-request-start-time, allow-equals-in-cookie-value,
> no-request-timeout, request-parse-timeout, disallowed-methods, tcp-backlog,
> receive-buffer, send-buffer, tcp-keep-alive, read-timeout, write-timeout,
> max-connections, secure'*
> * at
> org.jboss.as.controller.parsing.ParseUtils.unexpectedAttribute(
> ParseUtils.java:128)*
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> *requirements* :
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> - Entire solution has to run with SSL (HTTPS) from end to end
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> Did someone already faced that situation ?
> Thank you for reading this post.
>
> Regards,
>
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> /Olivier
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