CME-403

TLS 1.3 Enforcement

Description

Restricts all TLS connections to TLS 1.3 minimum, eliminating protocol downgrade attacks and leveraging TLS 1.3's reduced handshake, mandatory forward secrecy, and encrypted extensions.

CVSS Vector Impacts

Metric Transition Rationale
Attack Complexity (AC) L H TLS downgrade attacks impossible; forward secrecy mandatory

CWE Relationships

Verification

Verify minimum TLS version is 1.3

$ openssl s_client -connect localhost:443 -tls1_2 </dev/null 2>&1 | grep 'handshake failure'
# Expected: handshake failure
Platform: any
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