V-253738

Discussion

Only DoW-approved external PKIs have been evaluated to ensure that they have security controls and identity vetting procedures in place that are sufficient for DoW 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 DoW-approved PKIs is published at https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/pki-pke/pdf/unclass-ss_using_commercial_pki_certificates.pdf. This requirement focuses on communications protection for the MariaDB session rather than for the network packet.

Check Content

As the database administrator, check the following variables: 

MariaDB> SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'ssl_ca';
MariaDB> SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'ssl_cert'; 

The Value column will show the fully qualified file name of the ssl_ca and ssl_cert respectively. The issuer can be found by running the following command:
$ openssl x509 -in  fully-qualified-file-name-of-ssl_ca  -noout -issuer
$ openssl x509 -in  fully-qualified-file-name-of-ssl_cert  -noout -issuer
 
The issuer should be checked against the authoritative list of DoW-approved PKIs, which is published at https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/pki-pke/pdf/unclass-ss_using_commercial_pki_certificates.pdf.

If the DBMS will accept non-DoW approved PKI end-entity certificates, this is a finding.