The Ubuntu operating system must only allow the use of DoD PKI-established certificate authorities for verification of the establishment of protected sessions.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-219321	UBTU-18-010436	SV-219321r853389_rule		Medium

Description
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.

Description

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.

STIG	Date
Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-09-08

Details

Check Text ( C-21046r305291_chk )
Verify the directory containing the root certificates for the Ubuntu operating system only contains certificate files for DoD PKI-established certificate authorities by iterating over all files in the '/etc/ssl/certs' directory and checking if, at least one, has the subject matching "DOD ROOT CA". If none is found, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-21045r305292_fix)
Add at least one DOD certificate authority to the '/usr/local/share/ca-certificates' directory, then run the 'update-ca-certificates' command.