CVE-2016-2183 remediation

CVE-2016-2183: SSL/TLS: Report Vulnerable Cipher Suites for HTTPS

This vulnerability can be remediated using group policy.

  • Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > SSL Configuration Settings
    • In SSL Cipher Suite Order, enable policy if it is not enable
    • Delete:
      • TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
      • TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
  • Quit Group Policy and restart server.

Using Powershell

  • Get-TlsCipherSuite -Name DES
  • Disable-TlsCipherSuite -Name TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
  • Get-TlsCipherSuite -Name DES to verify

Reference: NIST 

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