Title

The operating system must only allow the use of DoD PKI-established certificate authorities for authentication in the establishment of protected sessions to the operating system. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

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.

Check Content

Verify the operating system only allows the use of DoD PKI-established certificate authorities for verification of the establishment of protected sessions. If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix Text

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

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-203744r851811_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-203744

Group Title: SRG-OS-000403

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

Controls tied to check. These are derived from the CCIs shown above.