Protocol: SSL Untrusted Certificate Authorities¶

Identifier: issue_ssl_untrusted_certificate_authorities

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Description¶

A certificate chain anchored in an untrusted authority cannot establish an authenticated TLS connection.

How we test: We inspect each issuer in the presented certificate chain against the client trust store.

References:

• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5280#section-6

Configuration¶

Example¶

Example configuration:

---
security_tests:
  issue_ssl_untrusted_certificate_authorities:
    skip: false

Reference¶

skip¶

Type : boolean

Skip the test if true.