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Basic Authentication must be disabled.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-250334IBMW-LS-000381SV-250334r1051118_ruleCCI-000764medium
Description
Basic authentication does not use a centralized user store like LDAP. Not using a centralized user store complicates user management tasks and increases the risk that user accounts could remain on the system long after users have moved to their next deployment. Basic Auth also stores user credentials and passwords on the system and creates the potential for an attacker to circumvent strong authentication requirements like multi-factor or certificate based authentication. Allowing failover to Basic Auth allows the Liberty Server to fall back to basic authentication in the event certificate based authentication methods fail. Configuring the Liberty Server to fall back to basic authentication creates the potential for an attacker to circumvent strong authentication requirements and must be avoided.
STIGDate
IBM WebSphere Liberty Server Security Technical Implementation Guide2025-02-11

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 5 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (5) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

IAC-01.2Authenticate, Authorize and Audit (AAA)
1.00
IAC-02Identification & Authentication for Organizational Users
1.00
IAC-03Identification & Authentication for Non-Organizational Users
1.00
IAC-04Identification & Authentication for Devices
1.00
IAC-05Identification & Authentication for Third-Party Technology Assets, Applications and/or Services (TAAS)
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (71) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-10Concurrent Session Control
1.00
AC-11Device Lock
1.00
AC-11(1)Pattern-hiding Displays
1.00
AC-17(10)Authenticate Remote Commands
1.00
AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
1.00
AC-2(10)Shared and Group Account Credential Change
1.00
AC-2(11)Usage Conditions
1.00
AC-2(2)Automated Temporary and Emergency Account Management
1.00
AC-2(3)Disable Accounts
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00

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NIST 800-1710 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (2) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

3.5.1
1.00
3.5.2
1.00
CCI1 mapping
CCI-000764
1.00
NIST CSF 2.00 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (3) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

PR.AA-01
1.00
PR.AA-03
1.00
PR.AA-05
1.00

Who does this work

7 NICE work roles and 5 EC-Council certifications.

This is an inference across published mappings, not a single claim by anyone. This check maps to a control, which maps to a Cybersecurity Framework outcome, which NIST assigns to the work roles below. EC-Council separately maps its certifications to those same roles.

A certification prepares someone for a role. It is not evidence that a holder is qualified, and neither NIST nor EC-Council has stated that any certification here addresses this check.

Work-role assignments published by NIST (NICE Framework Components 2.2.0 and the CSF 2.0 OLIR crosswalk). Certification mappings published by EC-Council.

Details

Check Text (C-250334r1051118_chk)

As a privileged user with local file access to the ${server.config.dir}/server.xml file, search the server.xml for the basicRegistry setting. grep -i basicregistry server.xml SAMPLE: <basicRegistry id="basic" realm="BasicRealm"> <user name="employee0" password="emp0pwd" /> <user name="employee1" password="emp1pwd" /> <user name="manager0" password="mgr0pwd" /> <group name="employeeGroup"> <member name="employee0" /> <member name="employee1" /> </group> </basicRegistry> If <basicRegistry> settings are defined in server.xml, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-53723r862979_fix)

Delete basicRegistry settings and re-configure the server.xml file to use a centralized LDAP user store. SAMPLE: <featureManager> <feature>appSecurity-2.0</feature> <feature>ldapRegistry-3.0</feature> </featureManager> <ldapRegistry id="ldap" realm="SampleLdapRealm" host="${ldap.server.name}" port="${ldap.server.port}" ignoreCase="true" baseDN="${ldap.server.base.dn}" ldapType="${ldap.vendor.type}" searchTimeout="8m"> </ldapRegistry>