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The IBM Aspera Shares private/secret cryptographic keys file must be group-owned by nobody 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-252610r831515_rule
Version
ASP4-SH-060230
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the /opt/aspera/shares/u/shares/config/aspera/secret.rb file to be group-owned by nobody with the following command:

$ sudo chgrp nobody /opt/aspera/shares/u/shares/config/aspera/secret.rb