Title

The container platform must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to nonprivileged accounts. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the application. Authentication sessions between the authenticator and the application validating the user credentials must not be vulnerable to a replay attack. An authentication process resists replay attacks if it is impractical to achieve a successful authentication by recording and replaying a previous authentication message. A nonprivileged account is any operating system account with authorizations of a nonprivileged user. Techniques used to address this include protocols using nonces (e.g., numbers generated for a specific one-time use) or challenges (e.g., TLS, WS_Security). Additional techniques include time-synchronous or challenge-response one-time authenticators.

Check Content

Review the container platform configuration to determine if the container platform is configured to provide replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to nonprivileged accounts. If the container platform is not configured to provide replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to nonprivileged accounts, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the container platform to provide replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to nonprivileged accounts.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-233085r981852_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-233085

Group Title: SRG-APP-000157

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