Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The Mainframe Product must fail to a secure state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.
<VulnDiscussion>Failure to a known safe state helps prevent systems from failing to a state that may cause loss of data or unauthorized acces...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000226
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In the event of application failure, Mainframe Products must preserve any information necessary to determine the cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with the least disruption to mission processes.
<VulnDiscussion>Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. Fa...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000231
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The Mainframe Product must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.
<VulnDiscussion>Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is located on a secondary storage device (e.g., disk drive and...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000233
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The Mainframe Product must reveal full-text detail error messages only to system programmers and/or security administrators.
<VulnDiscussion>Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000272
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The Mainframe Product must isolate security functions from nonsecurity functions.
<VulnDiscussion>An isolation boundary provides access control and protects the integrity of the hardware, software, and firmware that perform...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000234
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The Mainframe Product must be configured such that emergency accounts are never automatically removed or disabled.
<VulnDiscussion>Emergency accounts are administrator accounts which are established in response to crisis situations where the need for rapid...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000251
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The Mainframe Product must check the validity of all data inputs except those specifically identified by the organization.
<VulnDiscussion>Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into an application's data entry fields and the application ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000266
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The Mainframe Product must generate error messages that provide information necessary for corrective actions without revealing information that could be exploited by adversaries.
<VulnDiscussion>Any application providing too much information in error messages risks compromising the data and security of the application ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000267
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The Mainframe Product must automatically update malicious code protection mechanisms.
<VulnDiscussion>Malicious software detection applications need to be constantly updated in order to identify new threats as they are discover...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000275
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SRG-APP-000296
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The Mainframe product must notify the system programmer and security administrator of failed security verification tests.
<VulnDiscussion>If personnel are not notified of failed security verification tests, they will not be able to take corrective action and the ...Rule Medium Severity
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