Support unknown ACME challenge types (#9680)

This is, to my knowledge, an entirely inconsequential PR to add support for entirely novel challenge types.

Presently in the [`challb_to_achall` function](399b932a86/certbot/certbot/_internal/auth_handler.py (L367)) if the challenge type is not of a type known to certbot an error is thrown. This check is mostly pointless as an authenticator would not request a challenge unknown to it. This check does however forbid any plugins from supporting entirely novel challenges not of the key authorisation form.

* support unknown ACME challenge types

* add to changelog

* update tests

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Co-authored-by: Brad Warren <bmw@eff.org>

AUTHORS.md

@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ Authors
 * [Piotr Kasprzyk](https://github.com/kwadrat)
 * [Prayag Verma](https://github.com/pra85)
 * [Preston Locke](https://github.com/Preston12321)
+* [Q Misell][https://magicalcodewit.ch]
 * [Rasesh Patel](https://github.com/raspat1)
 * [Reinaldo de Souza Jr](https://github.com/juniorz)
 * [Remi Rampin](https://github.com/remram44)

certbot/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Certbot adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 * `--dns-google-project` optionally allows for specifying the project that the DNS zone(s) reside in,
   which allows for Certbot usage in scenarios where the auth credentials reside in a different
   project to the zone(s) that are being managed.
-*
+* There is now a new `Other` annotated challenge object to allow plugins to support entirely novel challenges.
 
 ### Changed
 

certbot/certbot/_internal/auth_handler.py

@@ -384,7 +384,8 @@ def challb_to_achall(challb: messages.ChallengeBody, account_key: josepy.JWK,
             challb=challb, domain=domain, account_key=account_key)
     elif isinstance(chall, challenges.DNS):
         return achallenges.DNS(challb=challb, domain=domain)
-    raise errors.Error(f"Received unsupported challenge of type: {chall.typ}")
+    else:
+        return achallenges.Other(challb=challb, domain=domain)
 
 
 def gen_challenge_path(challbs: List[messages.ChallengeBody],

certbot/certbot/_internal/tests/auth_handler_test.py

@@ -46,12 +46,12 @@ class ChallengeFactoryTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_unrecognized(self):
         authzr = acme_util.gen_authzr(
-             messages.STATUS_PENDING, "test",
-             [mock.Mock(chall="chall", typ="unrecognized")],
-             [messages.STATUS_PENDING])
+            messages.STATUS_PENDING, "test",
+            [mock.Mock(chall="chall", typ="unrecognized")],
+            [messages.STATUS_PENDING])
 
-        with pytest.raises(errors.Error):
-            self.handler._challenge_factory(authzr, [0])
+        achalls = self.handler._challenge_factory(authzr, [0])
+        assert type(achalls[0]) == achallenges.Other
 
 
 class HandleAuthorizationsTest(unittest.TestCase):

certbot/certbot/achallenges.py

@@ -59,3 +59,9 @@ class DNS(AnnotatedChallenge):
     """Client annotated "dns" ACME challenge."""
     __slots__ = ('challb', 'domain') # pylint: disable=redefined-slots-in-subclass
     acme_type = challenges.DNS
+
+
+class Other(AnnotatedChallenge):
+    """Client annotated ACME challenge of an unknown type."""
+    __slots__ = ('challb', 'domain') # pylint: disable=redefined-slots-in-subclass
+    acme_type = challenges.Challenge