Information
Situations may arise in which the certificate issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) may need to be revoked before the lifetime of the certificate expires. For example, the certificate is known to have been compromised.
To achieve this, a list of certificates that have been revoked, known as a Certificate Revocation List (CRL), is sent periodically from the CA to the IPsec gateway. When an incoming Internet Key Exchange (IKE) session is initiated for a remote client or peer whose certificate is revoked, the CRL will be checked to see if the certificate is valid; if the certificate is revoked, IKE will fail and an IPsec security association will not be established for the remote endpoint.
NOTE: Nessus has not performed this check. Please review the benchmark to ensure target compliance.
Solution
Configure the CA trust point to enable certificate revocation check by referencing a CRL or via OCSP.