QID: 38172 – SSL Certificate Improper Usage

Summary: The SSL vulnerability scan identifies an untrusted self-signed certificate in use on TCP port 8000.

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Symptoms

Clients may reject TLS handshake if basicConstraints or keyUsage validation fails. Scanners will flag this as a misconfiguration.

Cause

Dell PowerScale InsightIQ presents a CA certificate or leaf certificate with incorrect X.509 attributes during the SSL/TLS handshake (e.g., CA:TRUE, crlSign) instead of an end-entity certificate.

Resolution

Customers are advised to replace the default self-signed certificate with:

  • A third party (public or private) CA-issued certificate (preferred), or
  • Another self-signed leaf certificate (CA:FALSE, correct Key Usage/EKU)

Refer to the Dell PowerScale InsightIQ Security Configuration Guide for additional details.

Additional Information

QID 38172 flags misconfigured SSL/TLS certificates on TCP port 8000, where server leaf certificates are incorrectly assigned certificate authority-like attributes.

Affected Products

PowerScale InsightIQ
Article Properties
Article Number: 000400392
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 17 Dec 2025
Version:  3
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