STIGUI
V-282768CAT II — Medium severitySV-282768r1201307_rule

TOSS 5 must accept only external credentials that are NIST compliant.

Rule version TOSS-05-000027 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

Acceptance of only NIST-compliant external authenticators applies to organizational systems that are accessible to the public (e.g., public-facing websites). External authenticators are issued by nonfederal government entities and are compliant with [SP 800-63B]. Approved external authenticators meet or exceed the minimum federal governmentwide technical, security, privacy, and organizational maturity requirements. Meeting or exceeding federal requirements allows federal government relying parties to trust external authenticators in connection with an authentication transaction at a specified authenticator assurance level.

Check

Sites must document external authenticators being used and that they are NIST compliant.

The following command will verify that Kerberos is functional and produce the list of signing hosts:

$ sudo klist -ekt /etc/krb5.keytab

If external authenticators are being use that are not documented and are not NIST compliant, this is a finding.

Fix

Document all NIST-compliant external authenticators in use.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-282768
Group title
SRG-OS-000745-GPOS-00210
Rule ID
SV-282768r1201307_rule
Check ID
C-87329r1201305_chk
Fix ID
F-87234r1201306_fix