The RSA Identity Governance & Lifecycle AD Collector and AD ADC authentication source fail to establish a TLS 1.2 SSL connection with the AD LDAP server
Originally Published: 2018-06-19
Article Number
Applies To
RSA Version/Condition: 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2
Issue
06/18/2018 00:15:00.416 ERROR (ApplyChangesRegularThread-103) [com.aveksa.collector.accountdata.LdapAccountDataReaderConfig] Error in getting connection to UserDirectory , Root Cause :
javax.naming.NamingException: JBAS011843: Failed instantiate InitialContextFactory com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory from classloader com.aveksa.client.datacollector.framework.CollectorClassLoader@1395c8ec
[Root exception is javax.naming.CommunicationException: simple bind failed: 192.168.1.1:636 [Root exception is javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed:
sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target]]
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Caused by: javax.naming.CommunicationException: simple bind failed: 192.168.1.1:636 [Root exception is javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: .
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Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException:
unable to find valid certification path to requested target
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Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
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Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
A tcpdump packet trace of the SSL negotiation shows the SSL failure as Internal Error (80):
Secure Sockets Layer
TLSv1.2 Record Layer: Alert (Level: Fatal, Description: Internal Error)
Content Type: Alert (21)
Version: TLS 1.2 (0x0303)
Length: 2
Alert Message
Level: Fatal (2)
Description: Internal Error (80)Cause
Resolution
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