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Nutanix AOS 5.20.x OS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Nutanix AOS must enforce discretionary access control on symlinks and hardlinks.

    <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-OS-000327-GPOS-00127

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Nutanix AOS 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-OS-000021-GPOS-00005

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Nutanix AOS must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15-minute time period.

    &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-OS-000023-GPOS-00006

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Nutanix AOS must be configured to display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the operating system ensures privacy and se...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000228-GPOS-00088

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Nutanix AOS must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events for system module management actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Any publicly accessible connection to Nutanix AOS must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the publicly accessible operating system en...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Nutanix AOS must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events for successful and unsuccessful attempts to access, modify, or delete privileges, security objects, security levels, or categories of information (e.g., classification levels).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Nutanix AOS must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events for system and account management actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Nutanix AOS must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events for file attribute management actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • SRG-OS-000064-GPOS-00033

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • SRG-OS-000368-GPOS-00154

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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