Details

This policy setting allows you to manage whether Internet Explorer will check revocation status of servers’ certificates. Certificates are revoked when they have been compromised or are no longer valid, and this option protects users from submitting confidential data to a site that may be fraudulent or not secure. If you enable this policy setting, Internet Explorer will check to see if server certificates have been revoked. If you disable this policy setting, Internet Explorer will not check server certificates to see if they have been revoked. If you do not configure this policy setting, Internet Explorer will not check server certificates to see if they have been revoked.

Satisfies: SRG-APP-000605

Solution

Set the policy value for Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Internet Explorer -> Internet Control Panel -> Advanced Page -> ‘Check for server certificate revocation’ to ‘Enabled’.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_IE11_V2R1_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Identification and Authentication.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

• 800-53|IA-5(2)(a)
• CAT|III
• CCI|CCI-000185
• Rule-ID|SV-223078r428786_rule
• STIG-ID|DTBI365-IE11
• STIG-Legacy|SV-59493
• STIG-Legacy|V-46629
• Vuln-ID|V-223078

Source

• Tenable.com/audits