Title

MongoDB must only accept end entity certificates issued by DoD PKI or DoD-approved PKI Certification Authorities (CAs) for the establishment of all encrypted sessions. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Only DoD-approved external PKIs have been evaluated to ensure that they have security controls and identity vetting procedures in place which are sufficient for DoD systems to rely on the identity asserted in the certificate. PKIs lacking sufficient security controls and identity vetting procedures risk being compromised and issuing certificates that enable adversaries to impersonate legitimate users. The authoritative list of DoD-approved PKIs is published at http://iase.disa.mil/pki-pke/interoperability. This requirement focuses on communications protection for MongoDB session rather than for the network packet.

Check Content

To run MongoDB in SSL mode, you have to obtain a valid certificate singed by a single certificate authority. Before starting the MongoDB database in SSL mode, verify that certificate used is issued by a valid DoD certificate authority (openssl x509 -in <path_to_certificate_pem_file> -text | grep -i "issuer"). If there is any issuer present in the certificate that is not a DoD approved certificate authority, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Remove any certificate that was not issued by an approved DoD certificate authority. Contact the organization's certificate issuer and request a new certificate that is issued by a valid DoD certificate authorities.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-221195r961596_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-221195

Group Title: SRG-APP-000427-DB-000385

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

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