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Unable to limit Configuration utility access to clients using only TLSv1.1 or TLSv1.2

Details

You are unable to limit Configuration utility access to clients that are configured to use only TLSv1.1 or TLSv1.2.

This issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met:

You attempt to limit Configuration utility access to TLSv1.1 or TLSv1.2 using one of the following Traffic Management Shell (tmsh) commands:

tmsh modify sys httpd ssl-protocol ‘TLSv1.1’

tmsh modify sys httpd ssl-protocol ‘TLSv1.2’

tmsh modify sys httpd ssl-protocol ‘TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2’

tmsh modify sys httpd ssl-protocol ‘ALL -TLSv1 -SSLv2 -SSLv3’

Solution

1. tmsh modify sys httpd ssl-protocol ‘ALL -SSLv2 -SSLv3’

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Access Control.This control applies to the following type of system F5.

References

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Updated on July 16, 2022
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