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Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000178

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  • The Mainframe Product must obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process to protect the information from possible exploitation/use by unauthorized individuals.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To prevent the compromise of authentication information such as passwords during the authentication process, the feedback fro...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000179

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  • The Mainframe Product must use mechanisms meeting the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for authentication to a cryptographic module.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Unapproved mechanisms that are used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not verified and therefore cannot be r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000180

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  • The Mainframe Product must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Lack of authentication and identification enables non-organizational users to gain access to the application or possibly othe...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000181

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  • The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ability to generate on-demand reports, including after the audit data has been subjected to audit reduction, greatly faci...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000186

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  • The Mainframe Product must terminate all sessions and network connections when nonlocal maintenance is completed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If a maintenance session or connection remains open after maintenance is completed, it may be hijacked by an attacker and use...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Mainframe Product must identify prohibited mobile code.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within applications are based on the potential for the code to cause damage...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000207

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  • The Mainframe Product must block, quarantine, and/or alert system administrators when prohibited mobile code is identified.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000209

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  • The Mainframe Product must prevent the download of prohibited mobile code.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000210

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  • The Mainframe Product must prevent the automatic execution of mobile code in, at a minimum, office applications, browsers, email clients, mobile code run-time environments, and mobile agent systems.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Mobile code can cause damage to the system. It can execute without explicit action from, or notification to, a user. Preven...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000211

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  • The Mainframe Product must separate user functionality (including user interface services) from information system management functionality.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Application management functionality includes functions necessary for administration and requires privileged user access. All...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000225

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