Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Windows Server 2022 must not have the Telnet Client installed.
Unnecessary services increase the attack surface of a system. Some of these services may not support required levels of authentication or encryption or may provide unauthorized access to the system.Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must not have Windows PowerShell 2.0 installed.
Windows PowerShell 5.x added advanced logging features that can provide additional detail when malware has been run on a system. Disabling the Windows PowerShell 2.0 mitigates against a downgrade a...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 systems must have Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware and be configured to run in UEFI mode, not Legacy BIOS.
UEFI provides additional security features in comparison to legacy BIOS firmware, including Secure Boot. UEFI is required to support additional security features in Windows, including Virtualizatio...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 password history must be configured to 24 passwords remembered.
A system is more vulnerable to unauthorized access when system users recycle the same password several times without being required to change to a unique password on a regularly scheduled basis. Th...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 maximum password age must be configured to 60 days or less.
The longer a password is in use, the greater the opportunity for someone to gain unauthorized knowledge of the passwords. Scheduled changing of passwords hinders the ability of unauthorized system ...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 minimum password age must be configured to at least one day.
Permitting passwords to be changed in immediate succession within the same day allows users to cycle passwords through their history database. This enables users to effectively negate the purpose o...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must have the built-in Windows password complexity policy enabled.
The use of complex passwords increases their strength against attack. The built-in Windows password complexity policy requires passwords to contain at least three of the four types of characters (n...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 reversible password encryption must be disabled.
Storing passwords using reversible encryption is essentially the same as storing clear-text versions of the passwords, which are easily compromised. For this reason, this policy must never be enabled.Rule High Severity -
Windows Server 2022 permissions for the Application event log must prevent access by nonprivileged accounts.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 permissions for the Security event log must prevent access by nonprivileged accounts.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 permissions for the System event log must prevent access by nonprivileged accounts.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 Event Viewer must be protected from unauthorized modification and deletion.
Protecting audit information also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operatio...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to audit Account Logon - Credential Validation failures.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to audit Account Management - Security Group Management successes.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to audit Account Management - User Account Management failures.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to audit Detailed Tracking - Process Creation successes.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to audit logoff successes.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to audit logon successes.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to audit logon failures.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to audit Logon/Logoff - Special Logon successes.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to audit Object Access - Other Object Access Events successes.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to audit Object Access - Other Object Access Events failures.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to audit Object Access - Removable Storage successes.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to audit Policy Change - Authentication Policy Change successes.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to audit System - IPsec Driver successes.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to audit System - Security System Extension successes.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 source routing must be configured to the highest protection level to prevent Internet Protocol (IP) source routing.
Configuring the system to disable IP source routing protects against spoofing.Rule Low Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must be configured to enable Remote host allows delegation of nonexportable credentials.
An exportable version of credentials is provided to remote hosts when using credential delegation which exposes them to theft on the remote host. Restricted Admin mode or Remote Credential Guard al...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 network selection user interface (UI) must not be displayed on the logon screen.
Enabling interaction with the network selection UI allows users to change connections to available networks without signing in to Windows.Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 AutoPlay must be disabled for all drives.
Allowing AutoPlay to execute may introduce malicious code to a system. AutoPlay begins reading from a drive as soon media is inserted into the drive. As a result, the setup file of programs or musi...Rule High Severity -
Windows Server 2022 Security event log size must be configured to 196608 KB or greater.
Inadequate log size will cause the log to fill up quickly. This may prevent audit events from being recorded properly and require frequent attention by administrative personnel.Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 System event log size must be configured to 32768 KB or greater.
Inadequate log size will cause the log to fill up quickly. This may prevent audit events from being recorded properly and require frequent attention by administrative personnel.Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 Microsoft Defender antivirus SmartScreen must be enabled.
Microsoft Defender antivirus SmartScreen helps protect systems from programs downloaded from the internet that may be malicious. Enabling SmartScreen can block potentially malicious programs or war...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 Explorer Data Execution Prevention must be enabled.
Data Execution Prevention provides additional protection by performing checks on memory to help prevent malicious code from running. This setting will prevent Data Execution Prevention from being t...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 Turning off File Explorer heap termination on corruption must be disabled.
Legacy plug-in applications may continue to function when a File Explorer session has become corrupt. Disabling this feature will prevent this.Rule Low Severity -
Windows Server 2022 File Explorer shell protocol must run in protected mode.
The shell protocol will limit the set of folders that applications can open when run in protected mode. Restricting files an application can open to a limited set of folders increases the security ...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 Remote Desktop Services must prevent drive redirection.
Preventing users from sharing the local drives on their client computers with Remote Session Hosts that they access helps reduce possible exposure of sensitive data.Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 Remote Desktop Services must require secure Remote Procedure Call (RPC) communications.
Allowing unsecure RPC communication exposes the system to man-in-the-middle attacks and data disclosure attacks. A man-in-the-middle attack occurs when an intruder captures packets between a client...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 users must be notified if a web-based program attempts to install software.
Web-based programs may attempt to install malicious software on a system. Ensuring users are notified if a web-based program attempts to install software allows them to refuse the installation.Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 PowerShell script block logging must be enabled.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 Windows Remote Management (WinRM) client must not use Basic authentication.
Basic authentication uses plain-text passwords that could be used to compromise a system. Disabling Basic authentication will reduce this potential.Rule High Severity -
Windows Server 2022 Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service must not allow unencrypted traffic.
Unencrypted remote access to a system can allow sensitive information to be compromised. Windows remote management connections must be encrypted to prevent this. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000393-GPOS-0017...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must have PowerShell Transcription enabled.
Maintaining an audit trail of system activity logs can help identify configuration errors, troubleshoot service disruptions, and analyze compromises that have occurred, as well as detect attacks. A...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 must only allow administrators responsible for the domain controller to have Administrator rights on the system.
An account that does not have Administrator duties must not have Administrator rights. Such rights would allow the account to bypass or modify required security restrictions on that machine and mak...Rule High Severity -
Windows Server 2022 Kerberos service ticket maximum lifetime must be limited to 600 minutes or less.
This setting determines the maximum amount of time (in minutes) that a granted session ticket can be used to access a particular service. Session tickets are used only to authenticate new connectio...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 Kerberos user ticket lifetime must be limited to 10 hours or less.
In Kerberos, there are two types of tickets: Ticket Granting Tickets (TGTs) and Service Tickets. Kerberos tickets have a limited lifetime so the time an attacker has to implement an attack is limit...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 Kerberos policy user ticket renewal maximum lifetime must be limited to seven days or less.
This setting determines the period of time (in days) during which a user's Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT) may be renewed. This security configuration limits the amount of time an attacker has to crac...Rule Medium Severity -
Windows Server 2022 Active Directory Group Policy objects must have proper access control permissions.
When directory service database objects do not have appropriate access control permissions, it may be possible for malicious users to create, read, update, or delete the objects and degrade or dest...Rule High Severity -
Windows Server 2022 Active Directory Domain Controllers Organizational Unit (OU) object must have the proper access control permissions.
When Active Directory objects do not have appropriate access control permissions, it may be possible for malicious users to create, read, update, or delete the objects and degrade or destroy the in...Rule High Severity -
Windows Server 2022 data files owned by users must be on a different logical partition from the directory server data files.
When directory service data files, especially for directories used for identification, authentication, or authorization, reside on the same logical partition as user-owned files, the directory serv...Rule Medium Severity
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