NSS/PKCS11 errors in docker alpine wildfly on AWS GovCloud - amazon-web-services

Question

I am using the woahbase/alpine-wildfly image. I keep receiving the following errors when trying to connect to AWS endpoints for S3 and/or SQS:
Caused by: java.security.ProviderException: Could not initialize NSS
and Caused by: java.io.IOException: NSS initialization failed. The errors seem similar to this bug https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8023434 but this was for a windows deployment.
Here is the entire error message:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSessionImpl.<init>(SSLSessionImpl.java:188)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSessionImpl.<init>(SSLSessionImpl.java:152)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSessionImpl.<clinit>(SSLSessionImpl.java:79)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.init(SSLSocketImpl.java:598)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.<init>(SSLSocketImpl.java:566)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketFactoryImpl.createSocket(SSLSocketFactoryImpl.java:110)
at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory.createLayeredSocket(SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java:363)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.upgrade(DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.java:192)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.upgrade(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:369)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.amazonaws.http.conn.ClientConnectionManagerFactory$Handler.invoke(ClientConnectionManagerFactory.java:76)
at com.amazonaws.http.conn.$Proxy2.upgrade(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.establishRoute(MainClientExec.java:415)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:236)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:184)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:184)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:82)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:55)
at com.amazonaws.http.apache.client.impl.SdkHttpClient.execute(SdkHttpClient.java:72)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.executeOneRequest(AmazonHttpClient.java:1190)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.executeHelper(AmazonHttpClient.java:1030)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.doExecute(AmazonHttpClient.java:742)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.executeWithTimer(AmazonHttpClient.java:716)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.execute(AmazonHttpClient.java:699)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.access$500(AmazonHttpClient.java:667)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutionBuilderImpl.execute(AmazonHttpClient.java:649)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.execute(AmazonHttpClient.java:513)
at com.amazonaws.services.sqs.AmazonSQSClient.doInvoke(AmazonSQSClient.java:1740)
at com.amazonaws.services.sqs.AmazonSQSClient.invoke(AmazonSQSClient.java:1716)
at com.amazonaws.services.sqs.AmazonSQSClient.executeCreateQueue(AmazonSQSClient.java:718)
at com.amazonaws.services.sqs.AmazonSQSClient.createQueue(AmazonSQSClient.java:695)
at com.amazonaws.services.sqs.AmazonSQSClient.createQueue(AmazonSQSClient.java:730)
at com.mycompany.ck.aws.credentials.test.Main.main(Main.java:54)
Caused by: java.security.ProviderException: Could not initialize NSS
at sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11.<init>(SunPKCS11.java:223)
at sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11.<init>(SunPKCS11.java:103)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig$2.run(ProviderConfig.java:224)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig$2.run(ProviderConfig.java:206)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig.doLoadProvider(ProviderConfig.java:206)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig.getProvider(ProviderConfig.java:187)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderList.getProvider(ProviderList.java:233)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderList.getIndex(ProviderList.java:263)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderList.getProviderConfig(ProviderList.java:247)
at sun.security.jca.ProviderList.getProvider(ProviderList.java:253)
at java.security.Security.getProvider(Security.java:503)
at sun.security.ssl.SignatureAndHashAlgorithm.<clinit>(SignatureAndHashAlgorithm.java:415)
... 36 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: NSS initialization failed
at sun.security.pkcs11.Secmod.initialize(Secmod.java:234)
at sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11.<init>(SunPKCS11.java:218)
... 52 more
I am running a RHEL 7.7 host with docker 1.13.1, build 4ef4b30.
Any help would be appreciated. thanks!

Answer 1

Looks like the image might be missing cryptographic libraries to work with SSL algos. Try installing openssl & nss related packages
Build a custom dockerfile with these packages and try executing it.
RUN apk add --no-cache nss openssl