Parse addon id from mozilla.rsa file

Question

I am trying to read mozilla.rsa file and parse the addon Id using C++.

My effort:

std::string rsaPath = xpiDir + "\\META-INF\\mozilla.rsa";

int rets = system(("CertUtil " + rsaPath + " | findstr " + "S=CA").c_str());

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My additional logic.............
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It's working fine on Windows 7 and later versions. But, there is no on Windows xp.

Is there any way to read addon id from mozilla.rsa file using C or C++?

Answer 1

Indeed, the file can be read and parsed with Windows CryptoAPI.

The file mozilla.rsa of Mozilla extension is a PKCS#7 signature. On Linux it can be viewed with the following command:

openssl pkcs7 -print -inform der -in META-INF/mozilla.rsa.

The signature file contains a chain of certificates. One of them has addon ID in its CN component of Subject field.

This Stack Overflow answer explains how to parse PKCS#7 data using CryptoAPI CryptQueryObject() function.

For reference Microsoft Support has also more elaborate example of parsing: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/323809/how-to-get-information-from-authenticode-signed-executables.

Using all these sources, one can compile the following code which would print the required ID:

#include <windows.h>
#include <wincrypt.h>
#pragma comment(lib, "crypt32.lib")

...

std::string rsaPath = xpiDir + "\\META-INF\\mozilla.rsa";
std::wstring wRsaPath(rsaPath.begin(), rsaPath.end());

HCERTSTORE hStore = NULL;
HCRYPTMSG hMsg = NULL;
BOOL res = CryptQueryObject(
    CERT_QUERY_OBJECT_FILE,
    wRsaPath.c_str(),
    CERT_QUERY_CONTENT_FLAG_PKCS7_SIGNED,
    CERT_QUERY_FORMAT_FLAG_BINARY,
    0,
    NULL,
    NULL,
    NULL,
    &hStore,
    &hMsg,
    NULL
);
if (!res) {
    std::cout << "Error decoding PKCS#7 file: " << GetLastError() << std::endl;
    return -1;
}

PCCERT_CONTEXT next_cert = NULL;
while ((next_cert = CertEnumCertificatesInStore(hStore, next_cert)) != NULL)
{
    WCHAR szName[1024];
    // Get subject name
    if (!CertGetNameString(
        next_cert,
        CERT_NAME_SIMPLE_DISPLAY_TYPE,
        0,
        NULL,
        szName,
        1024
    )) {
        std::cout << "CertGetNameString failed.\n";
        return -1;
    }

    // only process names looking like IDs, e.g. "CN={212b458b-a608-452b-be1f-a09658163cbf}"
    if (szName[0] == L'{') {
        std::wcout << szName << std::endl;
    }
}

CryptMsgClose(hMsg);
CertCloseStore(hStore, 0);

The comparison szName[0] == L'{' is not very reliable, it is only used for the sake of code simplicity. One might want to use better way of detecting addon ID value, e.g. regex.