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V-288144

CAT II (Medium)

The application must only allow the use of DoW-approved (or other authorizing official [AO]-approved) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-established certificate authorities (CAs) for verification of the establishment of protected sessions.

Rule ID

SV-288144r1253072_rule

STIG

General Application (GAPP) Security Requirements Guide

Version

V1R0.1

CCIs

CCI-002470

Discussion

Untrusted CAs can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that seek to compromise DoW systems or by organizations with insufficient security controls. If the CA used for verifying the certificate is not a DoW-approved CA, trust of this CA has not been established. The DoW will only accept PKI certificates obtained from a DoW-approved internal or external certificate authority. Reliance on CAs for the establishment of secure sessions includes, for example, the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates. This requirement focuses on communications protection for the application session rather than for the network packet. This requirement applies to applications that use communications sessions. This includes, but is not limited to, web-based applications and service-oriented architectures (SOAs).

Check Content

Navigate to the CA configuration section of the application.

If the application is using CAs that are not DoW approved (or otherwise AO approved), this is a finding.

Fix Text

Navigate to the CA configuration section of the application.

Configure the application to use CAs that are DoW approved (or otherwise AO approved).