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MariaDB must only accept end entity certificates issued by DoD PKI or DoD-approved PKI Certification Authorities (CAs) for the establishment of all encrypted sessions.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-253738MADB-10-008500SV-253738r1193220_ruleCCI-002470medium
Description
Only DoD-approved external PKIs have been evaluated to ensure that they have security controls and identity vetting procedures in place that are sufficient for DoD systems to rely on the identity asserted in the certificate. PKIs lacking sufficient security controls and identity vetting procedures risk being compromised and issuing certificates that enable adversaries to impersonate legitimate users. The authoritative list of DoD-approved PKIs is published at https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/pki-pke/pdf/unclass-ss_using_commercial_pki_certificates.pdf. This requirement focuses on communications protection for the MariaDB session rather than for the network packet.
STIGDate
MariaDB Enterprise 10.x Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-03-02

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
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AC-17(2)Protection of Confidentiality and Integrity Using Encryption
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AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
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AC-2(11)Usage Conditions
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AC-2(2)Automated Temporary and Emergency Account Management
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AC-2(3)Disable Accounts
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AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
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AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00
AC-7Unsuccessful Logon Attempts
1.00

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CCI1 mapping

Details

Check Text (C-253738r1193220_chk)

As the database administrator, check the following variables: MariaDB> SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'ssl_ca'; MariaDB> SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'ssl_cert'; The Value column will show the fully qualified file name of the ssl_ca and ssl_cert respectively. The issuer can be found by running the following command: $ openssl x509 -in fully-qualified-file-name-of-ssl_ca -noout -issuer $ openssl x509 -in fully-qualified-file-name-of-ssl_cert -noout -issuer The issuer should be checked against the authoritative list of DoD-approved PKIs, which is published at https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/pki-pke/pdf/unclass-ss_using_commercial_pki_certificates.pdf. If the DBMS will accept non-DoD approved PKI end-entity certificates, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-57141r841738_fix)

Revoke trust in any certificates not issued by a DoD-approved certificate authority. Configure MariaDB to accept only DoD and DoD-approved PKI end-entity certificates.