The container platform must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to nonprivileged accounts.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| medium | V-233085 | SRG-APP-000157 | SRG-APP-000157-CTR-000385 | SV-233085r981852_rule | 2025-09-10 | 2 |
Description
A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the application. Authentication sessions between the authenticator and the application validating the user credentials must not be vulnerable to a replay attack.
An authentication process resists replay attacks if it is impractical to achieve a successful authentication by recording and replaying a previous authentication message.
A nonprivileged account is any operating system account with authorizations of a nonprivileged user.
Techniques used to address this include protocols using nonces (e.g., numbers generated for a specific one-time use) or challenges (e.g., TLS, WS_Security). Additional techniques include time-synchronous or challenge-response one-time authenticators.
ℹ️ Check
Review the container platform configuration to determine if the container platform is configured to provide replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to nonprivileged accounts.
If the container platform is not configured to provide replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to nonprivileged accounts, this is a finding.
✔️ Fix
Configure the container platform to provide replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to nonprivileged accounts.