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Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Mainframe Product must enforce organization-defined discretionary access control policies over defined subjects and objects.

    <VulnDiscussion>Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have di...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000340

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proce...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000342

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must prevent software as identified in the site security plan from executing at higher privilege levels than users executing the software.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In certain situations, software applications/programs need to execute with elevated privileges to perform required functions....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000343

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must audit the execution of privileged functions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Misuse of privileged functions, either intentionally or unintentionally by authorized users, or by unauthorized external enti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000345

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must automatically lock the account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts in 15 minutes are exceeded.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000356

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    Group

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