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The IBM Aspera Faspex private/secret cryptographic keys file must have a mode of 0600 or less permissive to prevent unauthorized read access.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Private key data is used to prove that the entity presenting a public key certificate is the certificate's rightful owner. Compromise of private key data allows an adversary to impersonate the key holder.

ID
SV-252576r831500_rule
Version
ASP4-FA-050110
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the /opt/aspera/faspex/config/secret.yml file to have a mode of "0600" or less permissive with the following command:

$ sudo chmod 0600 /opt/aspera/faspex/config/secret.yml