Protocol: Broken TLS Certificate Chain of Trust¶

Identifier: issue_ssl_broken_chain_of_trust

Scanner(s) Support¶

Description¶

An incomplete or invalid certificate chain prevents clients from establishing authenticated TLS trust.

How we test: We validate the presented certificate path from the leaf certificate to a trusted root.

References:

• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5280

Configuration¶

Example¶

Example configuration:

---
security_tests:
  issue_ssl_broken_chain_of_trust:
    skip: false

Reference¶

skip¶

Type : boolean

Skip the test if true.