The Photon operating system must have the OpenSSL FIPS provider installed to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions.

Without confidentiality protection mechanisms, unauthorized individuals may gain access to sensitive information via a remote access session.

OpenSSH on the Photon operating system when configured appropriately can utilize a FIPS validated OpenSSL for cryptographic operations.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000033-GPOS-00014, SRG-OS-000393-GPOS-00173, SRG-OS-000394-GPOS-00174, SRG-OS-000423-GPOS-00187, SRG-OS-000425-GPOS-00189, SRG-OS-000426-GPOS-00190

At the command line, run the following command to verify the OpenSSL FIPS provider is installed:

# rpm -qa | grep openssl-fips

Example result:

openssl-fips-provider-3.0.3-1.ph4.x86_64

If there is no output indicating that the OpenSSL FIPS provider is installed, this is a finding.

At the command line, run the following command:

# tdnf install openssl-fips-provider