RabbitMQ SSL Connection with spring-amqp 1.4.3

Question

I am trying to connect to RabbitMQ over SSL. I have followed the RabbitMQ SSL documentation linked here https://www.rabbitmq.com/ssl.html As per RabbitMQ SSL documentation connecting using SSLv3 and TLSv1 is not recommeded due to known vulnerabilities. Due to this I have disabled these protocols on RabbitMQ as per instructions.

I am using spring-amqp 1.4.3 to connect to RabbitMQ. Plese find below code snippet

            ApplicationContext context =
            new GenericXmlApplicationContext("classpath:/testConfig/testrabbit-context.xml");
        RabbitTemplate template = context.getBean(RabbitTemplate.class);
        MessageProperties messageProperties = new MessageProperties();
        org.springframework.amqp.core.Message amqpMessage = new org.springframework.amqp.core.Message(
                "Test".getBytes(), messageProperties);
        String routingKey = "TEST.businessevent.route";
        template.send(routingKey, amqpMessage);

Please find below my config

        <rabbit:connection-factory id="rabbitConnectionFactory"
    connection-factory="clientConnectionFactory"        
    host="localhost" 
    port="5671" 
    username="username"
    password="password" 
    virtual-host="test_host" />

<rabbit:admin connection-factory="rabbitConnectionFactory" />

<rabbit:template id="rabbitTemplate"
    connection-factory="rabbitConnectionFactory" exchange="test_topic" />

<rabbit:topic-exchange name="test_topic" durable="true" />  

<bean id="clientConnectionFactory"
    class="org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.connection.RabbitConnectionFactoryBean">
<property name="useSSL" value="true" />
<property name="sslPropertiesLocation" value="/testconfig/rabbitSSL.properties"/>

</bean>

Properties file rabbitSSL.properties is as follows

    keyStore=file:/client/keycert.p12
    trustStore=file:/lib/security/rabbitStore
    keyStore.passPhrase=testpassword
    trustStore.passPhrase=testpassword

However when I use the above code and config to connect to RabbitMQ over SSL I am getting a fatal alert: protocol_version. When I looked at the org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.connection.RabbitConnectionFactoryBean class that Spring is using to connect to RabbitMQ, I can see that the protocol appears to be hard coded to SSLv3.

                SSLContext context = SSLContext.getInstance("SSLv3");
        context.init(kmf.getKeyManagers(), tmf.getTrustManagers(), null);
        this.connectionFactory.useSslProtocol(context);

This code works fine if I do not disable SSLv3 on RabbitMQ. However I need to connect to RabbitMQ using Tlsv1.2. Can I do that using Spring amqp 1.4.3 or do I need to use another version. Thanks for any help you can provide me with this issue.

Answer 1

I have opened a JIRA Issue for this.

In the meantime, the RabbitConnectionFactoryBean is just a convenience class to make configuring an underlying connection factory more "Spring friendly" with defaults.

Instead, you can perform this initialization in your own code (perhaps using a @Bean declaration using Java Configuration).