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Certificate Management Service:DescribeClientCertificate

Last Updated:Dec 16, 2025

Queries the details of a client certificate or a server-side certificate using its unique identifier.

Operation description

This operation queries the details of a client certificate or a server-side certificate using its unique identifier. The returned details include the serial number, subject, content, and status of the certificate.

Before you call this operation, you must create a client certificate or a server-side certificate.

For more information about how to create a client certificate by calling an API operation, see:

For more information about how to create a server-side certificate by calling an API operation, see:

QPS limit

The queries per second (QPS) limit for a single user is 10. If you exceed this limit, API calls are throttled. This may affect your business. Plan your calls accordingly.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

yundun-cert:DescribeClientCertificate

get

*All Resource

*

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

Identifier

string

Yes

The unique identifier of the client certificate or server-side certificate that you want to query.

Note

Call the ListClientCertificate operation to query the unique identifiers of all client certificates and server-side certificates.

d3b95700998e47afc4d95f886579****

In addition to the request parameters described in this topic, you must also include the common request parameters for Alibaba Cloud API operations.

For more information about the request format, see the request example in the Examples section of this topic.

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

DescribeCertificateResponse

Certificate

object

The details of the client certificate or server-side certificate.

X509Certificate

string

The content of the certificate.

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- ...... -----END CERTIFICATE-----

Identifier

string

The unique identifier of the certificate.

d3b95700998e47afc4d95f886579****

SerialNumber

string

The serial number of the certificate.

62b2b943a32d96883a6650e672ea0276****

SubjectDN

string

The distinguished name (DN) of the certificate. It indicates the user of the certificate and contains the following information:

  • C: The country.

  • O: The organization.

  • OU: The department.

  • CN: The common name.

  • ST: State or province.

  • CN: Common name.

C=CN,O=阿里云计算有限公司,OU=Security,L=Hangzhou,ST=Zhejiang,CN=Aliyun

CommonName

string

The common name of the certificate.

aliyun.com

OrganizationUnit

string

The name of the department of the organization that is associated with the subordinate CA that issued the certificate.

Security

Organization

string

The name of the organization that is associated with the subordinate CA that issued the certificate.

阿里云计算有限公司

Locality

string

The name of the city where the organization that is associated with the subordinate CA that issued the certificate is located.

Hangzhou

State

string

The name of the province or state where the organization associated with the issuing subordinate CA certificate is located.

Zhejiang

CountryCode

string

The code of the country where the organization that is associated with the subordinate CA that issued the certificate is located.

For more information, see Manage company profiles.

CN

Sans

string

The Subject Alternative Name (SAN) extension of the certificate. It indicates other domain names, IP addresses, and other information that are associated with the certificate.

This parameter is a string that is converted from a JSON array. Each element in the JSON array is a struct that corresponds to a SAN extension. Each SAN extension struct contains the following parameters:

  • Type: The type of the extension. This parameter is of the Integer type. Valid values:
    • 1: an email address.

    • 2: a domain name.

    • 6: a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).

    • 7: an IP address.

  • Value: The content of the extension. This parameter is of the String type.

[ {"Type": 7, "Value": "192.0.XX.XX"}, {"Type": 2, "Value": "www.aliyundoc.com"}, ]

Status

string

The status of the certificate. Valid values:

  • ISSUE: The certificate is issued.

  • REVOKE: The certificate is revoked.

ISSUE

BeforeDate

integer

The issuance date of the certificate. This value is a UNIX timestamp. Unit: milliseconds.

1634283958000

AfterDate

integer

The expiration date of the certificate. This value is a UNIX timestamp. Unit: milliseconds.

1665819958000

Algorithm

string

The type of the encryption algorithm of the certificate. Valid values:

  • RSA: the RSA algorithm.

  • ECC: the ECC algorithm.

  • SM2: the SM2 algorithm.

RSA

KeySize

integer

The key length of the certificate.

4096

SignAlgorithm

string

The signature algorithm of the certificate.

SHA256WITHRSA

CertificateType

string

The type of the certificate. Valid values:

  • CLIENT: a client certificate.

  • SERVER: a server-side certificate.

SERVER

ParentIdentifier

string

The unique identifier of the subordinate CA that issued the certificate.

160ae6bb538d538c70c01f81dcf2****

Sha2

string

The SHA-256 fingerprint of the certificate.

14dcc8afc7578e1fcec36d658f7e20de18f6957bbac42b373a66bc9de4e9****

Md5

string

The MD5 fingerprint of the certificate.

d3b95700998e47afc4d95f886579****

Days

integer

The validity period of the certificate. Unit: days.

365

ResourceGroupId

string

The ID of the resource group to which the certificate belongs.

rg-acfmxllajdpw3fi

Tags

array<object>

The list of tags.

object

A tag.

TagKey

string

The tag key.

后台管理

TagValue

string

The tag value.

[{\"tag\":\"PROPERTY_TYPE\",\"values\":[]}]

RequestId

string

The ID of the request.

15C66C7B-671A-4297-9187-2C4477247A74

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "Certificate": {
    "X509Certificate": "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----  ...... -----END CERTIFICATE-----",
    "Identifier": "d3b95700998e47afc4d95f886579****",
    "SerialNumber": "62b2b943a32d96883a6650e672ea0276****",
    "SubjectDN": "C=CN,O=阿里云计算有限公司,OU=Security,L=Hangzhou,ST=Zhejiang,CN=Aliyun",
    "CommonName": "aliyun.com",
    "OrganizationUnit": "Security",
    "Organization": "阿里云计算有限公司",
    "Locality": "Hangzhou",
    "State": "Zhejiang",
    "CountryCode": "CN",
    "Sans": "[ {\"Type\": 7, \"Value\": \"192.0.XX.XX\"}, {\"Type\": 2, \"Value\": \"www.aliyundoc.com\"}, ]",
    "Status": "ISSUE",
    "BeforeDate": 1634283958000,
    "AfterDate": 1665819958000,
    "Algorithm": "RSA",
    "KeySize": 4096,
    "SignAlgorithm": "SHA256WITHRSA",
    "CertificateType": "SERVER",
    "ParentIdentifier": "160ae6bb538d538c70c01f81dcf2****",
    "Sha2": "14dcc8afc7578e1fcec36d658f7e20de18f6957bbac42b373a66bc9de4e9****",
    "Md5": "d3b95700998e47afc4d95f886579****",
    "Days": 365,
    "ResourceGroupId": "rg-acfmxllajdpw3fi",
    "Tags": [
      {
        "TagKey": "后台管理",
        "TagValue": "[{\\\"tag\\\":\\\"PROPERTY_TYPE\\\",\\\"values\\\":[]}]"
      }
    ]
  },
  "RequestId": "15C66C7B-671A-4297-9187-2C4477247A74"
}

Error codes

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.