STIGUI
V-215293CAT II — Medium severitySV-215293r1009549_rule

AIX must setup SSH daemon to disable revoked public keys.

Rule version AIX7-00-002110 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-31

Discussion

Without configuring a local cache of revocation data, there is the potential to allow access to users who are no longer authorized (users with revoked certificates).

Check

If public keys are not used for SSH authentication, this is Not Applicable.

Run the following command:

# grep "^RevokedKeys" /etc/ssh/sshd_config RevokedKeys /etc/ssh/RevokedKeys.txt

If the command does not find the "RevokedKeys" setting, or the value for "RevokedKeys" is set to "none", this is a finding.

Fix

Obtain the file that contains all the public keys that need to be revoked from ISSO/SA and save the file in /etc/ssh/ directory.

Edit the "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" file to allow "RevokedKeys" to point to the revoked key file obtained above.

Restart the SSH daemon: # stopsrc -s sshd # startsrc -s sshd

Identifiers

Group ID
V-215293
Group title
SRG-OS-000384-GPOS-00167
Rule ID
SV-215293r1009549_rule
Check ID
C-16491r294330_chk
Fix ID
F-16489r294331_fix