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Patrick Born
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Cisco SPA series phones and ATAs can use certificate-authenticated HTTPS (SSL) sessions to ensure secure provisioning. For a provisioning server to be acceptable to the SPA phone or ATA, the server must present a certificate signed by Cisco's Certificate Authority (CA).

Over the years, we have added certificate authorities (CA) as needed and for administrative reasons.

If your SPA1xx or SPA232D ATA or SPA5xx IP Phone is running current or newer firmware, 1.3.3 or 7.5.6 respectively, use the newer "Cisco 2k Small Business CA" even though you could use any of the older CAs.

A HTTPS server used for device provisioning must use a certificate signed by the appropriate CA for the device.

To obtain this certificate, you must submit a certificate signing request (CSR) by following the CSR instructions.

When submitting the CSR, you must list the device types that you want to provision so we know what certificates to generate for you.

Following is a list to help you identify the appropriate CA associated with your device:

  • Cisco 2k Small Business CA:
    • SPA1xx firmware 1.3.3 and newer
      (SPA112 and SPA122)
    • SPA232D firmware 1.3.3 and newer
    • SPA5xx firmware 7.5.6 and newer
      (SPA501G, SPA502G, SPA504G, SPA508G, SPA509G, SPA512G, SPA514G, SPA525G, and SPA525G2)
  • Cisco Small Business (SB) CA:
    • SPA1xx (SPA112 and SPA122)
    • SPA232D
    • SPA3xx (SPA301 and SPA303)
    • SPA5xx (SPA501G, SPA502G, SPA504G, SPA508G, SPA509G, SPA512G, SPA514G, SPA525G, and SPA525G2)
    • SRP5xx (SRP521 and SRP541)
  • Linksys CA:
    • PAP2
    • WRTP
    • RTP
  • Sipura CA:
    • PAP2T
    • WRP400
    • SPA2xxx (SPA2000 and SPA2102)
    • SPA3xxx (SPA3000 and SPA3102
    • SPA9xx (SPA901, SPA921, SPA922, SPA941, SPA942, SPA962)
    • SPA3xx (SPA301 and SPA303)
    • SPA5xx (SPA501G, SPA502G, SPA504G, SPA508G, SPA509G, SPA512G, SPA504G, SPA525G, and SPA525G2)

Note:

A HTTPS server can only present a single certificate per IP address:port

To securely provision devices associated with multiple CAs, you will need to implement multiple HTTPS services. You can use any one or a combination of the following options:

  • Deploy multiple computers with one network interface card (NIC) per computer, each performing the role of a CA

Example:

 

  • Deploy a single computer with multiple NICs where each NIC has a unique IP address where each IP address performs the role of a unique CA

Example:

 

  • Deploy a single computer with a single NIC where unique ports are used and each unique port is associated with a unique CA


<end of original document>


<Start of note from >

Informations in such documents seems to be either obsolete or invalid from  scratch. Most devices accept more than one CA, so multiple HTTPS  server as suggested by document may be overkill in some cases. But I will leave original ocument above, because I can't test all types and firmware versions.

 

See table bellow for real cross-compatibility list. It is based on real test of mentioned devices.

 

Device \ CA Linksys CA Sipura CA Cisco SB CA Verisign
PAP2T, 5.1.6(LS) OK OK NO NO
SPA112, 1.3.1(003) OK OK OK NO
SPA232D, 1.3.1(003_240) OK OK OK NO
SPA-962, 6.1.5(a) OK OK NO ?
SPA508G, 7.5.4 OK OK OK NO
SPA508G, 7.6.2 NO *)
OK OK ?
SPA525G2, 7.5.4 OK OK OK ?

 

Note:

Linksys CA:

/C=US/ST=California/L=Irvine/O=Cisco xxx, LLC./OU=Cisco xxx Certificate Authority

/CN=xxx Provisioning Root Authority 1/emailAddress=xxx-certadmin@cisco.com

Serial: D0:7D:8A:7B:AD:BA:7C:B6:44:69:98:B1:EA:89:87:9F

 

Sipura CA:

/C=US/ST=California/L=San Jose/O=xxx /OU=xxx

/CN=xxx Provisioning Root Authority 1/emailAddress=xxx

Serial: 45:BF:48:C0:CE:B8:8F:7B:C8:E1:6D:85:62:5A:5B:8F

 

CiscoSB CA:

/C=US/ST=California/L=San Jose/O=Cisco Small Business/OU=Cisco Small Business Certificate Authority

/CN=Cisco Small Business Provisioning Root Authority 1/emailAddress=ciscosb-certadmin@cisco.com

Serial: D0:7D:8C:15:C0:BA:7C:B6:44:69:98:B1:EA:89:87:9F

 

Verisign CA (based on informations in xxx:

/C=US/O=xxx, Inc./OU=Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority

Serial: 70:BA:E4:1D:10:D9:29:34:B6:38:CA:7B:03:CC:BA:BF

or

/C=US/O=xxx, Inc./OU=xxx /OU=Terms of use at xxx (c)05

/CN=xxx Class 3 Secure Server CA

Serial: 75:33:7D:9A:B0:E1:23:3B:AE:2D:7D:E4:46:91:62:D4

 

Note: according Verisign (now Symantec) tech support, VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA based certificates are no longer issued. Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority rooted certificates are sold under product name "Secure Site" and "Secure Site Pro".

 

*) Linksys CA certificate embedded on SPA50x has expired on end of Jun 2015. Firmwares older than 7.6.2 has been known not to honor certificate times at all. From 7.6.2 onward certificate times are honored, thus Linksys CA certificate is considered expired e.g. untrusted. SSL connections based on Linksys CA certificate are refused with err 10 (certificate expired).

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Dan Lukes
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

I see no SPA232D in document at all, althougth it seems the document apply to it as well.

Dan Lukes
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

Today I got brand new SPA508G phone. It has been shipped with 7.5.2 firmware and it's client certificate is issued by

/C=US/ST=California/L=San Jose/O=Cisco Small Business/OU=Cisco Small Business Certificate Authority/CN=Cisco Small Business Client Root Authority 2/emailAddress=ciscosb-certadmin@cisco.com
Serial: d0:7d:8c:15:c0:ba:7c:b6:44:69:98:b1:ea:89:87:9f

authority. Our secure provisioning doesn't work with the device (the phone can connect to provisioning server, but we are unable to identify the phone as we are unable to verify the client certificate).

As far as I know, there is no announcement from Cisco related to it. Nor even there is the root certificate of such authority published.

Oh dear Cisco ...

As I'm not willing to write a words that should be never seen in public, I have no further comment about Cisco's approach ...

 

Dan Lukes
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

Note the older firmwares (exact list of them is not known, but it include even most recent firmware of PAP2T, pre-7.5.2b versions of SPA[35]0x firmware, ...) doesn't support SSL connection with Diffie-Hellman key larger than 1024b. As HTTP browsers are going to use larger keys by default, the affected devices will refuse connection to such kind of server with no helpful message in syslog.

So if HTTPS server is used for secure provisioning, it's configuration needs to be tuned accordingly.

Unfortunately, this issue is documented nowhere by Cisco.

 

cisco
Community Member

Did you get to the bottom of this? 
 

I'm also struggling with SPA502 with 7.5.2. firmware.

Dan Lukes
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

Its easy to solve the issue. You need to obtain the new CA certificate and add it to bundle of certificates your's provisioning system is already supporting. I did it the same day I has been affected by issue.

 

The problem is not the issue itself. The problem is the change is not properly documented nor announced by Cisco and the required CA certificate is not available to public.

cisco
Community Member

Yes, came to the same conclusion just now.   My combinedca.crt is missing the new CA.  My server certificates are fine.

I've emailed cisco so hopefully I'll get the new CA back soon.

Agree some notice on changes is good.

cisco
Community Member

If you could email me your CA file, that would save me waiting for cisco.  Only if you have it handy and its easy. Thanks

Dan Lukes
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

Certificate:
    Data:
        Version: 3 (0x2)
        Serial Number:
            d0:7d:8c:15:c0:ba:7c:b6:44:69:98:b1:ea:89:87:9f
        Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
        Issuer: C=US, ST=California, L=San Jose, O=Cisco Small Business, OU=Cisco Small Business Certificate Authority, CN=Cisco Small Business Client Root Authority 2/emailAddress=ciscosb-certadmin@cisco.com
        Validity
            Not Before: Aug  2 22:37:43 2013 GMT
            Not After : Jun 28 22:37:43 2035 GMT
        Subject: C=US, ST=California, L=San Jose, O=Cisco Small Business, OU=Cisco Small Business Certificate Authority, CN=Cisco Small Business Client Root Authority 2/emailAddress=ciscosb-certadmin@cisco.com
        Subject Public Key Info:
            Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
            RSA Public Key: (2048 bit)
                Modulus (2048 bit):
                    00:bf:c2:f8:3a:e6:c6:89:21:8c:82:a0:79:91:73:
                    72:f3:74:d5:a8:4e:a7:3d:7b:02:ab:6b:2c:8d:71:
                    82:02:76:7a:fa:bf:2e:8c:e7:b0:47:15:96:ab:83:
                    8f:48:0d:e7:e7:15:f2:ed:54:2e:cd:7d:e3:36:34:
                    f6:eb:05:a3:d5:39:57:2e:6a:ee:b2:0a:b7:7b:a6:
                    dd:82:e9:6a:94:01:2f:89:1d:52:93:f4:ec:23:08:
                    ae:6f:04:0a:94:5d:92:94:d6:3a:c4:58:69:da:2b:
                    2e:64:cf:77:0e:29:82:c3:be:7d:7a:eb:f8:f4:d1:
                    5c:18:77:85:a4:5e:e8:1e:51:f6:d4:79:f1:e1:c8:
                    44:7c:67:ad:9c:f7:9b:80:74:1f:32:05:79:c3:d5:
                    67:41:df:1c:80:9a:10:57:80:9b:7e:ab:e6:50:24:
                    82:42:06:cf:df:34:7d:0a:e9:70:56:dc:6f:0a:c5:
                    1b:32:7a:f0:e1:73:2e:21:d4:92:7a:d6:53:96:83:
                    b3:8d:82:bc:7f:5e:03:ed:e9:7e:63:39:bb:37:0a:
                    c6:32:c7:fe:db:3f:b0:8a:02:85:83:78:2a:87:32:
                    5a:b1:82:ff:38:df:0d:4b:83:31:8e:af:78:e6:79:
                    46:94:8e:2e:c3:18:34:36:31:90:b6:3a:89:1e:06:
                    1a:67
                Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)
        X509v3 extensions:
            X509v3 Subject Key Identifier:
                F8:C2:33:67:A9:12:FC:5D:43:23:9E:55:D3:7E:57:40:1A:55:42:10
            X509v3 Authority Key Identifier:
                keyid:F8:C2:33:67:A9:12:FC:5D:43:23:9E:55:D3:7E:57:40:1A:55:42:10
                DirName:/C=US/ST=California/L=San Jose/O=Cisco Small Business/OU=Cisco Small Business Certificate Authority/CN=Cisco Small Business Client Root Authority 2/emailAddress=ciscosb-certadmin@cisco.com
                serial:D0:7D:8C:15:C0:BA:7C:B6:44:69:98:B1:EA:89:87:9F

            X509v3 Basic Constraints:
                CA:TRUE
            Netscape Cert Type:
                SSL CA
            X509v3 Extended Key Usage:
                TLS Web Client Authentication
    Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
        98:95:36:35:98:51:26:92:66:c6:db:cd:ad:1a:a9:7f:12:2c:
        02:c3:36:28:4f:05:20:f3:85:a2:a1:f7:4d:6c:4b:68:47:0a:
        6f:f9:f3:6e:fa:e7:cf:cc:57:a5:7f:60:d6:d9:ba:7f:f3:81:
        16:e2:d7:c5:83:0c:1a:84:82:24:9a:ab:5f:20:5c:21:26:24:
        b7:6d:03:5f:ad:8e:10:9b:8c:2b:9a:6c:bc:a0:0c:4d:5c:52:
        d7:00:bb:ff:b9:73:aa:17:69:98:ca:a5:4c:79:bc:9e:73:48:
        b1:b5:c1:90:d8:88:89:f4:a2:55:bb:78:6b:e8:91:37:19:3f:
        37:7d:20:c4:ea:c1:f3:17:f1:4f:49:b5:6d:fe:f3:24:3b:f1:
        84:98:d0:0e:f4:24:bd:7e:e7:86:ee:6f:ff:7d:6c:49:fa:75:
        4d:d9:eb:f8:7c:1f:cd:3d:c3:16:33:23:38:8c:96:72:62:50:
        2d:6f:ea:68:0c:a6:ba:bb:0e:08:f5:5d:e9:c0:d2:c9:be:f3:
        ae:73:ae:63:ba:f6:8d:34:e9:60:b1:6e:a2:f8:cb:8b:fd:03:
        2c:c1:91:e0:45:12:e6:26:98:8a:51:16:6f:5c:36:20:6f:fd:
        99:96:3a:7b:8b:b1:56:2c:de:b7:91:ec:36:bc:14:56:c3:df:
        62:fd:d4:36
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIF7zCCBNegAwIBAgIRANB9jBXAuny2RGmYseqJh58wDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQAw
gewxCzAJBgNVBAYTAlVTMRMwEQYDVQQIEwpDYWxpZm9ybmlhMREwDwYDVQQHEwhT
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jhCbjCuabLygDE1cUtcAu/+5c6oXaZjKpUx5vJ5zSLG1wZDYiIn0olW7eGvokTcZ
Pzd9IMTqwfMX8U9JtW3+8yQ78YSY0A70JL1+54bub/99bEn6dU3Z6/h8H809wxYz
IziMlnJiUC1v6mgMprq7Dgj1XenA0sm+865zrmO69o006WCxbqL4y4v9AyzBkeBF
EuYmmIpRFm9cNiBv/ZmWOnuLsVYs3reR7Da8FFbD32L91DY=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

But you should not recognize me as the trusted source of such certificate ...

Despite of it, you may rate the response if it will help you ;-)

 

robin.johnson
Community Member

The new certificates that are being issued  by Cisco for Provisioning are issued by
issuer= /C=US/ST=California/L=San Jose/O=Cisco Small Business/OU=Cisco Small Business Certificate Authority/CN=Cisco Small Business Provisioning Root Authority 2/emailAddress=ciscosb-certadmin@cisco.com

Does anybody have a copy of that root, to make testing of provisioning easier? (specifically to have in the trusted CA's on my test code)

robin.johnson
Community Member

I found it, with some digging.
Attached is: ca_crt.pem.txt, which is all of the CAs that seem to be on the device, with the x509 -text output added (by me).

It does correctly verify a certificate issued by the Provisioning Root Authority 2.

Dan Lukes
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

May be you should read the thread before you raise the question. It will save your energy and time. The certificate you asked for is printed in the message just above your question.

Note that full bundle of root certificates is attached as combinedca-new.crt (or so) to every certificate you got signed from ciscosb-certadmin@cisco...

robin.johnson
Community Member

The certificate you included is NOT the same as the one I was looking for.
Yours was "CN=Cisco Small Business Client Root Authority 2"

I wanted "CN=Cisco Small Business Provisioning Root Authority 2"

And Cisco at least as of the email I got yesterday from ciscosb-certadmin@ contained just my requested cert in a zipfile, and no other attachments. No CAs were included at all; hence my digging and attaching the CAs from the 7.5.6b firmware.

Dan Lukes
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni
The certificate you included is NOT the same as the one I was looking for.
True. Mea culpa. Sorry for it.

 

Dan Lukes
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

Note the new CA/product names used in Cisco Enablement Services application:

CA name CN EDOS Product name
Linksys CA Cisco Linksys Provisioning Root Authority 1 PAP2/WRTP/RTP
Sipura CA Sipura Technology Provisioning Root Authority 1 PAP2T/WRP400/SPA2xxx/SPA3xxx/SPA9xx/SPA3xx/SPA5xx
Cisco Small Business (SB) CA Cisco Small Business Provisioning Root Authority 1 SPA1xx/SPA232D/SPA3xx/SPA5xx/SRP5xx
Cisco 2k Small Business CA Cisco Small Business Client Root Authority 2 SPA1xx firmware 1.3.3 and newer/SPA232D firmware 1.3.3 and newer/SPA5xx firmware 7.5.6 and newer/CP-78xxx-3PCC/CP-88xx-3PCC

I_______I
Level 1
Level 1

Hey,

Can someone please post a Cisco SPA client root certificate bundle, which can be used for client authentication?

This particular certificate, which is from a phone's client certificate's X509v3 Authority Key Identifier section, would be part of it and I couldn't find the cert on the Internet.

keyid: 38:4C:32:97:21:26:9B:B5:A5:10:D2:CA:8F:A0:A3:1F:EA:A9:1B:95
DirName: /C=US/ST=California/L=San Jose/O=Cisco Small Business/OU=Cisco Small Business Certificate Authority/CN=Cisco Small Business Client Root Authority 1/emailAddress=ciscosb-certadmin@cisco.com
serial: D0:7D:8C:15:C0:BA:7C:B6:44:69:98:B1:EA:89:87:9F

 

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