C#


ROSLYN.SECURITY.CA5380 : Do Not Add Certificates To Root Store (C#)

See Roslyn-Detected C# Warning Classes for more information.

Summary

By default, the Trusted Root Certification Authorities certificate store is configured with a set of public CAs that has met the requirements of the Microsoft Root Certificate Program. Since all trusted root CAs can issue certificates for any domain, an attacker can pick a weak or coercible CA that you install by yourself to target for an attack - and a single vulnerable, malicious or coercible CA undermines the security of the entire system. To make matters worse, these attacks can go unnoticed quite easily.

This check corresponds to Roslyn rule CA5380. For full rule details, see the Microsoft website: CA5380.

Properties

Class Name Do Not Add Certificates To Root Store (C#)
Significance security
Mnemonic ROSLYN.SECURITY.CA5380
Categories None
Availability Available for C# only.
Enabling Checks for this warning class are disabled by default. To enable them, add the following WARNING_FILTER rule to the project configuration file.
WARNING_FILTER += allow class="Do Not Add Certificates To Root Store (C#)"

Relevant Configuration File Parameters

The following configuration file parameters affect checks for this warning class.