The container platform must configure web management tools and Application Program Interfaces (API) with FIPS-validated Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher block algorithm to protect the confidentiality of maintenance and diagnostic communications for nonlocal maintenance sessions.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-233208	SRG-APP-000412-CTR-001000	SV-233208r601877_rule		Medium

Description
Without confidentiality protection mechanisms, unauthorized individuals may gain access to sensitive information via a remote access session. Nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic activities are activities conducted by individuals communicating through either an external network (e.g., the internet) or an internal network.

STIG	Date
Container Platform Security Requirements Guide	2021-12-14

Details

Check Text ( C-36144r601876_chk )
Validate the container platform web management tools and Application Program Interfaces (API) are configured to use FIPS-validated Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher block algorithms to protect the confidentiality of maintenance and diagnostic communications for nonlocal maintenance sessions. If the web management tools and API are not configured to use FIPS-validated Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher block algorithms, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-36144r601876_chk )

Validate the container platform web management tools and Application Program Interfaces (API) are configured to use FIPS-validated Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher block algorithms to protect the confidentiality of maintenance and diagnostic communications for nonlocal maintenance sessions.

If the web management tools and API are not configured to use FIPS-validated Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher block algorithms, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-36112r601866_fix)
Configure the container platform web management tools and Application Program Interfaces (API) with FIPS-validated Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher block algorithm to protect the confidentiality of maintenance and diagnostic communications for nonlocal maintenance sessions.