Fritzbox Fritz!Box AVM SSL Letsencrypt automatically update

fritzbox-cert-update.sh

#!/bin/bash
## this little Gist is for Copy the Letsencrypt Cert from an Linux machine (e.g. Raspberry PI or Synology NAS)
## to the router (Fritzbox).
## It is usefull to be able to speak to the Router over DDNS without any Cert issue in the Browser.
## thanks to https://gist.github.com/mahowi for the perfect Idea
## put it in /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/post so it gets run after every renewal.
## since Fritz OS 7.25 it is needed to select a Username, from a security point of view 
## it is always a good idea to have a non default user name. And as normaly a Fritz Box
## is connected to the Internet, the prefered method should be WITH Username.


# parameters
USERNAME="needed since Fritz OS 7.25"
PASSWORD="fritzbox-password"
CERTPATH="path to cert eg  /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.tld/"
CERTPASSWORD="cert password if needed"
HOST=http://fritz.box

# make and secure a temporary file
TMP="$(mktemp -t XXXXXX)"
chmod 600 $TMP

# login to the box and get a valid SID
CHALLENGE=`wget -q -O - $HOST/login_sid.lua | sed -e 's/^.*<Challenge>//' -e 's/<\/Challenge>.*$//'`
HASH="`echo -n $CHALLENGE-$PASSWORD | iconv -f ASCII -t UTF16LE |md5sum|awk '{print $1}'`"
SID=`wget -q -O - "$HOST/login_sid.lua?sid=0000000000000000&username=$USERNAME&response=$CHALLENGE-$HASH"| sed -e 's/^.*<SID>//' -e 's/<\/SID>.*$//'`

# generate our upload request
BOUNDARY="---------------------------"`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
printf -- "--$BOUNDARY\r\n" >> $TMP
printf "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"sid\"\r\n\r\n$SID\r\n" >> $TMP
printf -- "--$BOUNDARY\r\n" >> $TMP
printf "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"BoxCertPassword\"\r\n\r\n$CERTPASSWORD\r\n" >> $TMP
printf -- "--$BOUNDARY\r\n" >> $TMP
printf "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"BoxCertImportFile\"; filename=\"BoxCert.pem\"\r\n" >> $TMP
printf "Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n" >> $TMP
cat $CERTPATH/privkey.pem >> $TMP
cat $CERTPATH/fullchain.pem >> $TMP
printf "\r\n" >> $TMP
printf -- "--$BOUNDARY--" >> $TMP

# upload the certificate to the box
wget -q -O - $HOST/cgi-bin/firmwarecfg --header="Content-type: multipart/form-data boundary=$BOUNDARY" --post-file $TMP | grep SSL

# clean up
rm -f $TMP

As already explain but the other people, you must use User AND Password to get it working. As I always uses both I never had this issue. Von meinem iPhone gesendet

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Am 09.05.2021 um 12:32 schrieb HanSolo72 ***@***.***>: ***@***.*** commented on this gist. I have the same problem since I updated my 6490 to 7.25 and my 7490 to 7.26. How the script must be changed to work properly? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

I will rewrite my script so that a user name would be needed, if you like you can write a version where the user name can be detected as written before. For security reason it is always better to use a own username and Fritzbox without access to internet is not the main purpose of the device. I would say 99 % user it as internet router so they have internet access and then own username is a good idea. Von meinem iPhone gesendet

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Am 05.04.2021 um 21:00 schrieb rikroe ***@***.***>: ***@***.*** commented on this gist. Why should I change the default username? It is not allowed for logging in from the internet anyway and when in the LAN it isn't required anyway. I'll use the default username for now, but maybe could you add this into the gist? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

Just a question. Could some tell me where I can find /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/post on the Synology DMS 7.1?
I can't seem to find that folder at all.
If DSM 7.1 doesn't have this folder, how would I be able to automate copying of the key to FritzBox? What trigger would I use or where would I place this script?

Maybe ask Synology? You are their customer so you have a right to get an answer as their client... I think something with cron or scheduling in DSM is broken but sorry this is very off topic ;) Kind Regards From Phoneland

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On Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 14:26 JeroenTuinstra ***@***.***> wrote: ***@***.**** commented on this gist. ------------------------------ Just a question. Could some tell me where I can find /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/post on the Synology DMS 7.1? I can't seem to find that folder at all. If DSM 7.1 doesn't have this folder, how would I be able to automate copying of the key to FritzBox? What trigger would I use or where would I place this script? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <https://gist.github.com/f1d5747a714e0a34d0582981f7cb4cfb#gistcomment-4405019> or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AH7N7TBTUCAR4PXHECXGALTWNRUY5BFKMF2HI4TJMJ2XIZLTSKBKK5TBNR2WLJDHNFZXJJDOMFWWLK3UNBZGKYLEL52HS4DFQKSXMYLMOVS2I5DSOVS2I3TBNVS3W5DIOJSWCZC7OBQXE5DJMNUXAYLOORPWCY3UNF3GS5DZVRZXKYTKMVRXIX3UPFYGLK2HNFZXIQ3PNVWWK3TUUZ2G64DJMNZZDAVEOR4XAZNEM5UXG5FFOZQWY5LFVA2TAOJTG44TIONHORZGSZ3HMVZKMY3SMVQXIZI> . You are receiving this email because you commented on the thread. Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS <https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1477376905?ct=notification-email&mt=8&pt=524675> or Android <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.android&referrer=utm_campaign%3Dnotification-email%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dgithub> .

Hey mate,
thanks for your fine script. It works flawless with:

• FRITZ!OS 7.39-101552 BETA on a FRITZ!Box 7530
• FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p1

I have two suggestions though, mabye its valuable for others:

1. Your script runs fine with the standard shell /bin/sh. You might want to consider making that one the default, instead of bash. No need to add unnecessary dependencies in my opinion.
2. This one was kinda tricky: Your script ran successfully as user. But when I called it with doas (similiar to sudo), iconv always returned unsupported encoding of UTF16LE.
   Turned out I have two different versions from iconv installed:
   /usr/bin/iconv (system)
   /usr/local/bin/iconv (installed from libiconv-1.17)

As user /usr/bin/iconv (the correct one) was used. With doas, /usr/local/bin/iconv was used and failed with unsupported encoding.
I have added the the following line to your script (line 18) to run iconv from the correct path:

export PATH=/usr/bin/:$PATH

Thanks again for your efforts. Great work!

Hey there,
thanks so much for the script, it's serving me really well! It works already for multiple Fritzboxes.
However, I have an issue with one single Fritzbox, where I just can't get it to work. Fritzbox 7530, FritzOS 7.29. It did work at some point, I had to replace the server from which the cert was uploaded and now it's playing dump with me...

What i tried so far:

• copied script from the source here on GH
• verified username and password. I can login to the webinterface no problem.
• removed -q from the wget commands to be able to better see whats happening.

In the last step it says: Das eingegebene Kennwort ist nicht gültig. Bitte geben Sie das richtige Kennwort ein.
Which I guarantee, is the right one.
Do you or anyone else have suggestions what it could be or how to better debugg this?

Cheers!

Hi Eldiabolo21,

das sieht doch wieder schwer nach unterschiedliche Netze aus, sind die 2 Geräte Fritzbox und das Gerät welches das Script ausführt auch im selben physikalischen Netzwerk? Wir hatten hier schon den Fall das einer das remote versucht hat. Wenn es das nicht ist dann könnte ich mir noch vorstellen das das Script Probleme hat bei Sonderzeichen im Passwort, das habe ich selbst noch nie probiert.

so meld dich mal wegen den 2 Sachen...

mfg Chris aka wikrie

Hey, danke fuer die schnelle Antwort.

Server der das Script ausfuehrt und Fritzbox sind beide in 192.168.8.0/24. Passwort fuer den dedizierten cert-user der Fritzbox besteht das Passwort nur Zahlen, Gross- und Kleinbuchstaben. Daran kanns auch nicht liegen.

Sonst noch ne Idee?

Gruss!

Hey Eldiabolo21,

ich hab auch die 7530 (zwar neueres OS) und das Skript funktioniert aktuell (auch aus verschiedenen Netzen).
Wie sieht es denn mit den Berechtigungen des cert-user's aus?
Ich sehe hier bei mir in der Box, dass Benutzern auch die Berechtigung für das Lesen und Ändern von Einstellungen gegeben werden kann (bei nur einem User kann dies nicht deaktiviert werden -> Admin).
Prüfe das mal bitte.
Dann könntest du nochmal Testweise einen neuen Benutzer / Passwort anlegen bzw. vergeben.
Vielleicht auch nochmal das Skript prüfen ob du dort aus Versehen (zu viel) Änderungen vorgenommen hast.

Hey, auch vielen Dank auch fuer deine Antwort, leider keine Erfolg.
Berechtigung zum Einstellungen aendern waren gesetzt. Neuen Nutzer angelegt, gleiches Problem. Passwort fuer den aktuellen Cert-user habe ich auch schon x-mal geaendert.

Was ich aber rausgefunden habe, dass wenn ich im Scipt wirklich das falsche Passwort angebe, kommt noch eine ganz andere Meldung vom Script...

Habe zum Testen mal die Einstellung "Zugang aus dem Internet erlaubt" eingeschaltet, aber auch keine Besserung.

Noch mehr Ideen?

Edit:
Ich werde bekloppt.... Ich habe beide Sites mit Wireguard verbunden. Also einmal 192.168.8.0/24 was Probleme macht und 192.168.16.0/24, wo es problemlos geht. Beide Sites koennen einander erreichen.

Ich habe gerade das Script einfach auf den Host in 192.168.16.0/24 kopiert, so wie es auf dem anderen host war, und es geht o.OOOOO
Das laesst mich irgendwie zu dem Schluss kommen, dass eins der Pakete borken ist... Allerdings sind beide Hosts Ubuntu 20.04.5... Ich vergleiche mal Paketversionen...

Edit 2:
the mystery has been solved!!! It was the f****ng certificate. I created a cert with a docker compose command from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/66638930

Unfortunately that did something super weird with the created certs (I assume it's the --rsa-key-size 4096) and they can't be imported into the Fritzbox. I actually reached that conclusion when I compared the TMP-files the script creates. The private key on the non working machine was much shorter. I don't know what exactly went wrong, it still seemed like a valid cert, but didn't work for the Fritzbox. I ran certbox directly on the host, w/o any further key size args and imported the cert with success.... URGH, glad this is over...

Backup, Factory reset, Restore maybe the Box has run into some issues that causeb this unknown error. Also before you are able to open a support case at AVM, and send them a support case collection of your box. maybe it is still supported. Kind Regards From Phoneland

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On Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 22:15 Eldiabolo21 ***@***.***> wrote: ***@***.**** commented on this gist. ------------------------------ Hey, auch vielen Dank auch fuer deine Antwort, leider keine Erfolg. Berechtigung zum Einstellungen aendern waren gesetzt. Neuen Nutzer angelegt, gleiches Problem. Passwort fuer den aktuellen Cert-user habe ich auch schon x-mal geaendert. Was ich aber rausgefunden habe, dass wenn ich im Scipt wirklich das falsche Passwort angebe, kommt noch eine ganz andere Meldung vom Script... Habe zum Testen mal die Einstellung "Zugang aus dem Internet erlaubt" eingeschaltet, aber auch keine Besserung. Noch mehr Ideen? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <https://gist.github.com/f1d5747a714e0a34d0582981f7cb4cfb#gistcomment-4451207> or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AH7N7TCXRKTBFYGEESTLCKLWUQ3GNBFKMF2HI4TJMJ2XIZLTSKBKK5TBNR2WLJDHNFZXJJDOMFWWLK3UNBZGKYLEL52HS4DFQKSXMYLMOVS2I5DSOVS2I3TBNVS3W5DIOJSWCZC7OBQXE5DJMNUXAYLOORPWCY3UNF3GS5DZVRZXKYTKMVRXIX3UPFYGLK2HNFZXIQ3PNVWWK3TUUZ2G64DJMNZZDAVEOR4XAZNEM5UXG5FFOZQWY5LFVA2TAOJTG44TIONHORZGSZ3HMVZKMY3SMVQXIZI> . You are receiving this email because you commented on the thread. Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS <https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1477376905?ct=notification-email&mt=8&pt=524675> or Android <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.android&referrer=utm_campaign%3Dnotification-email%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dgithub> .

HiGgf. ein Berechtigungsproblem einfach mal einen Admin Account benutzen. Wenn der dann geht dann fehlt dem dedizierten was. Habe noch nie einen separaten Account dafür benutzt.                                  

Hey, auch vielen Dank auch fuer deine Antwort, leider keine Erfolg. Berechtigung zum Einstellungen aendern waren gesetzt. Neuen Nutzer angelegt, gleiches Problem. Passwort fuer den aktuellen Cert-user habe ich auch schon x-mal geaendert.

Was ich aber rausgefunden habe, dass wenn ich im Scipt wirklich das falsche Passwort angebe, kommt noch eine ganz andere Meldung vom Script...

Habe zum Testen mal die Einstellung "Zugang aus dem Internet erlaubt" eingeschaltet, aber auch keine Besserung.

Noch mehr Ideen?

Edit: Ich werde bekloppt.... Ich habe beide Sites mit Wireguard verbunden. Also einmal 192.168.8.0/24 was Probleme macht und 192.168.16.0/24, wo es problemlos geht. Beide Sites koennen einander erreichen.

Ich habe gerade das Script einfach auf den Host in 192.168.16.0/24 kopiert, so wie es auf dem anderen host war, und es geht o.OOOOO Das laesst mich irgendwie zu dem Schluss kommen, dass eins der Pakete borken ist... Allerdings sind beide Hosts Ubuntu 20.04.5... Ich vergleiche mal Paketversionen...

Edit 2: the mystery has been solved!!! It was the f****ng certificate. I created a cert with a docker compose command from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/66638930

Unfortunately that did something super weird with the created certs (I assume it's the --rsa-key-size 4096) and they can't be imported into the Fritzbox. I actually reached that conclusion when I compared the TMP-files the script creates. The private key on the non working machine was much shorter. I don't know what exactly went wrong, it still seemed like a valid cert, but didn't work for the Fritzbox. I ran certbox directly on the host, w/o any further key size args and imported the cert with success.... URGH, glad this is over...

Great you managed to make it work.
I use acme.sh to automatically issue / renew a wildcard certificate (single domain certificates are even easier to setup) and automatically install them from my VPS onto my fritzbox via wireguard. If you are interested you can check it out here: https://gion.io/blog/automatic-renewal-of-wildcard-certificates/

Anyhow, I am glad you found the error and made it work.
Have a great weekend!

This sentence comes to my mind:
Security breaking down our nerves (2023)

I had the same problem and it was because the certificate's private key was an ecdsa key.

Changing key_type to rsa in /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/xxx.conf and renewing the certificate (certbot renew --force-renewal) generated a certificate with a rsa private key which could be imported again.

Since recently, I was using this script to update the certificate on both, a Fritz!Box and a Fritz!Repeater 1200 AX.
The certificate option is not exposed in the UI on repeaters, but worked via this script just fine.

The repeater is now on 7.57 and it stopped working.
The returning page indicates a problem:

`

Das Update ist fehlgeschlagen:

Invalid variable name.

`

Anyone experiencing the same problem?

@mbo77 maybe you want to give fritzbox_upload_certificate a try. it was recently updated for 7.57.

@franzs

Looks nice and clean, but I suspect the problem is on the repeater side.
POSTing to the URL still gives the same message on the returing page:

Das Update ist fehlgeschlagen:

Invalid variable name.

Works fine with 7530AX on 7.57.

I suspect the repeater triggers the wrong function internally:

FRITZ!Repeater Update

Das Update ist fehlgeschlagen:

Invalid variable name.

Wiederholen Sie das Update oder starten Sie den FRITZ!Repeater neu.

This looks to me some message related to updating the firmware itself.
As the server-side binary is called "firmwarecfg", I suspect it was initially deployed for updating the firmware and later was extended to handle certificates as well. So maybe they messed it up internally on the repeater.
I will open a support case with AVM.

@mbo77 unfortunately i don't have access to a Fritz!Repeater 1200 AX. i ran the fritzbox_upload_certificate sucessfully with a FRITZ!WLAN Repeater DVB-C. it's not possible to upload a certificate via the ui but the /cgi-bin/firmwarecfg url works well with at least 7.01.

let us know what AVM says. 😄

No luck..

Die Funktion für den Import der Zertifikate war für unsere Repeater nie geplant und über die Benutzeroberfläche auch nicht möglich.
Durch aktuelle FRITZ!OS-Änderungen im Unterbau ist es nun bei Repeatern auch komplett entfernt worden.

Gerne gebe ich Ihr Anliegen aber als Verbesserungsvorschlag an unsere Produktentwicklung weiter.

@mbo77 What a pity. But thanks for sharing the answer. At least I'll list the Fritz!Repeater 1200 AX with 7.57 as unsupported. Unfortunately there is no easy way to get the product name and the OS version from a fritzbox to check it.

Hello,
I want to share my experience.
The script worked well. At a certain point it looks not working properly: no error prompted and no certificate imported.
After troubleshooting it I've discovered the issue was related to letsencrypt that changed from rsa to ecdsa. I replaced in the letsencrypt configuration file as below
#key_type = ecdsa
key_type = rsa
And now is working well back.
hope my experience will help you.

(tested with fritz7590 and 7530ax both version 7.57)

Hi,
this worked for me for years. now my boxtogo app say something like verification chain error ... after some testing i see the box don't have the cert anymore and don't get it with the script ...

maybe its the same like xraver say - but ... how to change? i use letsencrypt in a docker.

thx ;)

In my installation (standard debian) there is a file in /etc/letsencrypt/renewal with the name of your domain.
Inside there is a key: key_type. you have to change it as described above and request new certificate.

Hi Folks,

I do not maintain this script anymore as I use a complete solution for all of my Cert Issues.

https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager

so there you can also add and create a Cert for the FritzBox and all your services. So no need to create this and transfer it anymore.

hi xraver,
i found this file and changed it, but i'm not able to certbot renew --force-renewal ... it say something will use port 80 (what the nginx proxy is) -.-

@draddy82 With my Script you do not create any Cert it just upload the existing Letsencrypt Cert to a AVM FirtBox.

see the first 2 Lines in my Script Description

this little Gist is for Copy the Letsencrypt Cert from an Linux machine (e.g. Raspberry PI or Synology NAS)

to the router (Fritzbox).

yeah is ok wikrie

problem seems to be that the actual cert is not rsa ... but the fritzbox only accept rsa.

Nice! Thank you for this little script!