The HPE 3PAR OS must be configured to only allow the use of DOD PKI-established certificate authorities for authentication in the establishment of protected sessions to the operating system.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-255287	SRG-OS-000403-GPOS-00182	HP3P-33-004020	SV-255287r958868_rule	2024-08-27	2

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 HPE 3PAR OS can be configured to use only defined CA(s) for specific purposes. There is no default set of CA certificates included in the product.

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 HPE 3PAR OS can be configured to use only defined CA(s) for specific purposes. There is no default set of CA certificates included in the product.

ℹ️ Check
Check that a signed certificate and CA certificate have been imported: cli% showcert -service unified-server If the output does not contain DOD PKI certificates of at least two lines of output, one of type "cert" and one of type "rootca", this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Create a CSR to be signed by an appropriate CA: cli% createcert unified-server -csr -CN <common name> -SAN <DNS:somednsname or IP:someipaddress> Copy the output and give it to the CA for signing. Install the root CA certificate bundle: cli% importcert unified-server -ca stdin Copy and paste the ca bundle contents as instructed. Install the signed certificate from the ca: cli% importcert unified-server stdin Copy and paste the PEM format signed certificate contents as instructed.

✔️ Fix

Create a CSR to be signed by an appropriate CA: cli% createcert unified-server -csr -CN <common name> -SAN <DNS:somednsname or IP:someipaddress> Copy the output and give it to the CA for signing. Install the root CA certificate bundle: cli% importcert unified-server -ca stdin Copy and paste the ca bundle contents as instructed. Install the signed certificate from the ca: cli% importcert unified-server stdin Copy and paste the PEM format signed certificate contents as instructed.