Application servers must use NIST-approved or NSA-approved key management technology and processes.

Class 3 PKI certificates are used for servers and software signing rather than for identifying individuals. Class 4 certificates are used for business-to-business transactions. Utilizing unapproved certificates not issued or approved by DoW or CNS creates an integrity risk. The application server must utilize approved DoW or CNS Class 3 or Class 4 certificates for software signing and business-to-business transactions.

For the systemd Ubuntu OS, check the tomcat.service file to read the content of the JAVA_OPTS environment variable setting.

sudo cat /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service |grep -i truststore

EXAMPLE output: set JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/path/to/truststore" "-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=************"

If the variable is not set, use the default location command below. If the variable is set, use the alternate location command below and include the path and truststore file.

-Default location: keytool -list -cacerts -v | grep -i issuer

-Alternate location: keytool -list -keystore <location of trust store file> -v |grep -i issuer

If there are no CA certificates issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) that is part of the DoW PKI/PKE, this is a finding.

Obtain and install the DoW PKI CA certificate bundles by accessing the DoW PKI office website at cyber.mil/pki-pke.

Import the DoW CA certificates.