Vulnerabilities

SSL/TLS Certificate is Vulnerable to Heartbleed

Platform(s)
Compliance Frameworks
  • CCM-CSA
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  • cis_8
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  • Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Best Practices
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  • HITRUST
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  • iso_27001_2022
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  • iso_27002_2022
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  • New Zealand Information Security Manual
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  • NIST 800-171
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  • NIST 800-53
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  • Orca Best Practices

Description

Ensure that none of the server certificates managed by AWS IAM were compromised by the Heartbleed bug, meaning that none of the SSL/TLS certificates were uploaded before April 1st 2014, when the security bug was publicly disclosed. Heartbleed is a critical bug in the OpenSSL library that allows attackers to eavesdrop on SSL/TLS encrypted communications, steal sensitive or confidential data from services and users and be able to impersonate services and users