Detections
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1.109 UBTU-22-631010

Information

The operating system must use DOD PKI-established certificate authorities for verification of the establishment of protected sessions.

GROUP ID: V-260580
RULE ID: SV-260580r958868

Untrusted certificate authorities (CA) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that seek to compromise DOD systems or by organizations with insufficient security controls. If the CA used for verifying the certificate is not a DOD-approved CA, trust of this CA has not been established.

The DOD will only accept PKI-certificates obtained from a DOD-approved internal or external certificate authority. Reliance on CAs for the establishment of secure sessions includes, for example, the use of SSL/TLS certificates.

NOTE: Nessus has provided the target output to assist in reviewing the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Configure the operating system to use of DOD PKI-established certificate authorities for verification of the establishment of protected sessions.

Add at least one DOD certificate authority to the "/usr/share/ca-certificates" directory in the CRT format.

Update the "/etc/ssl/certs" directory by using the following command:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/22168

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

References: 800-53|SC-23(5), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-002470, CSCv7|5.1, Rule-ID|SV-260580r958868_rule, STIG-ID|UBTU-22-631010, Vuln-ID|V-260580

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: d1d12dabbc691c0aba564858774f5111142e651440f13640a11f1543f4df4fbb