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The WebSphere Application Server personal certificates in all keystores must be issued by an approved DoD CA.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-255880WBSP-AS-001460SV-255880r961596_ruleCCI-002470medium
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. The application server must only allow the use of DoD PKI-established certificate authorities for verification.
STIGDate
IBM WebSphere Traditional V9.x Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-02-26

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) 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.

CRY-11Certificate Authorities
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NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (39) 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-12Session Termination
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AC-17(10)Authenticate Remote Commands
1.00
AC-17(2)Protection of Confidentiality and Integrity Using Encryption
1.00
AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
1.00
AC-2(11)Usage Conditions
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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
AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00
AC-7Unsuccessful Logon Attempts
1.00

+29 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-002470
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-255880r961596_chk)

Review System Security Plan documentation for a list of DoD-approved CAs. From administrative console, navigate to Security >> SSL Certificates and Key Management >> KeyStores and Certificates. For each keystore, click on "Personal Certificates". If any of the certificates are not issued by an approved DoD CA, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-59496r876930_fix)

Utilize DoD certificates that have been issued by an approved DoD PKI CA. To replace a non-DoD PKI-established certificate: From the administrative console, navigate to Security >> SSL Certificates and Key Management >> KeyStores and Certificates. For each keystores that requires the change: Import a new certificate by clicking "Import". Click "keystore" file. Enter the location of the new certificate. Specify the type of keystore and keystore password. Specify alias information. Click "Apply". After the certificate is imported, click on "Replace" to replace the original certificate with the new certificate.