Certificates in the trust store must be issued/signed by an approved CA.
Overview
| Finding ID | Version | Rule ID | IA Controls | Severity |
| V-222994 | TCAT-AS-001430 | SV-222994r961596_rule | CCI-002470 | medium |
| Description | ||||
| Use of self-signed certificates creates a lack of integrity and invalidates the certificate based authentication trust model. Certificates used by production systems must be issued/signed by a trusted Root CA and cannot be self-signed. For systems that communicate with industry partners, the DoD ECA program supports the issuance of DoD-approved certificates to industry partners. For information on the DoD ECA program, refer to the DoD PKI office. Links to their site are available on https://public.cyber.mil. | ||||
| STIG | Date | |||
| Apache Tomcat Application Server 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide | 2025-02-11 | |||
Details
Check Text (C-222994r961596_chk)
For the systemd Ubuntu OS, check the tomcat.service file to read the content of the JAVA_OPTS environment variable setting.
sudo cat /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service |grep -i truststore
EXAMPLE output:
set JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/path/to/truststore" "-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=************"
If the variable is not set, use the default location command below. If the variable is set, use the alternate location command below and include the path and truststore file.
-Default location:
keytool -list -cacerts -v | grep -i issuer
-Alternate location:
keytool -list -keystore <location of trust store file> -v |grep -i issuer
If there are no CA certificates issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) that is part of the DoD PKI/PKE, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-24655r426427_fix)
Obtain and install the DoD PKI CA certificate bundles by accessing the DoD PKI office website at https://cyber.mil/pki-pke.
Download the certificate bundles and then use certificate management utilities such as keytool or openssl to import the DoD CA certificates into the trust store.