PowerStore: security scan may report multiple issues due to missing certificate

Summary: Security scans may report several issues if the PowerStore appliance does not have a Certificate Authority signed server certificate present.

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Symptoms

 

A security scan may report multiple security alerts during a scan of the PowerStore.

 

Below is a known set of items from a Qualys scan that are relevant to this issue:

QID 38169:  SSL Certificate - Self-Signed Certificate
QID 38170:  SSL Certificate - Subject Common Name Does Not Match Server FQDN
QID 38173:  SSL Certificate - Signature Verification Failed Vulnerability
QID 38685:  SSL Certificate - Invalid Maximum Validity Date Detected

 

 

Cause

 

These alerts show up in the scan due to no Certificate Authority (CA) signed server certificate being present.

Resolution

Create and import a CA signed certificate.

 

To import a CA signed server certificate, follow the steps from the following knowledge article. Be sure to carefully read the limitations associated with some versions, and the steps of the procedure:

 

PowerStore: How to replace the self-signed cluster management certificate with a certificate issued by an external certificate authority

 

Note: When these security alerts are identified, the Certificate Authority (CA) and those who determine the scanning criteria for certificates, must collaborate to ensure that the new CA-signed certificate meets all the parameters required by the security scanning software (Qualys). Otherwise, these types of issues may continue to occur.

Affected Products

PowerStore 1000X, PowerStore 1000T, PowerStore 1200T, PowerStore 3000X, PowerStore 3000T, PowerStore 3200Q, PowerStore 3200T, PowerStore 5000X, PowerStore 5000T, PowerStore 500T

Products

PowerStore, PowerStore 5200T, PowerStore 7000X, PowerStore 7000T, PowerStore 9000X, PowerStore 9000T, PowerStore 9200T
Article Properties
Article Number: 000289890
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 08 Sep 2025
Version:  3
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