Secure Mobile Access 12.4 Administration Guide

Viewing Client Certificate Errors in the Log

If the appliance is unable to verify a certificate chain, a message such as this one appears in the system message log file:

[09/Nov/2016:21:28:14.610949 +0000] E-Class SMASSLVPN 001539 ps 10000042 Info System Auth: CRL-CERT: Cert verification status = 0, err = 20 'unable to get local issuer certificate'

This message includes an error code (in this case, 20) reporting why the certificate check failed. These error codes are described in the Client certificate error codes table.

Client certificate error codes
Code Error message Description
2 Unable to get issuer certificate The issuer certificate of an untrusted certificate could not be found.
7 Certificate signature failure The signature of the certificate is invalid.
9 Certificate is not yet valid The certificate is not yet valid.
10 Certificate has expired The certificate has expired.
18 Self-signed certificate The passed certificate is self-signed and cannot be found in the list of trusted certificates.
19 Self-signed certificate in certificate chain The certificate chain can be built using the untrusted certificates, but the root cannot be found locally.
20 Unable to get local issuer certificate This normally means the list of trusted certificates is not complete. This error can also occur when an intermediate certificate is used for authentication (a root certificate is required).
21 Unable to verify the first certificate No signatures could be verified because the chain contains only one certificate and is not self-signed.
22 Certificate chain too long The certificate chain length is greater than the supplied maximum depth.
23 Certificate revoked The certificate has been revoked.
24 Invalid CA certificate A CA certificate is invalid. Either it is not a CA or its extensions are not consistent with the supplied purpose.

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