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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Ubuntu 20.04

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Ensure debug-shell service is not enabled during boot

    systemd's <code>debug-shell</code> service is intended to diagnose systemd related boot issues with various <code>systemctl</code> commands. Once e...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Non-UEFI GRUB2 bootloader configuration

    Non-UEFI GRUB2 bootloader configuration
    Group
  • Verify /boot/grub/grub.cfg User Ownership

    The file <code>/boot/grub/grub.cfg</code> should be owned by the <code>root</code> user to prevent destruction or modification of the file. To pro...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify /boot/grub/grub.cfg Permissions

    File permissions for <code>/boot/grub/grub.cfg</code> should be set to 600. To properly set the permissions of <code>/boot/grub/grub.cfg</code>, r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Set Boot Loader Password in grub2

    The grub2 boot loader should have a superuser account and password protection enabled to protect boot-time settings. <br><br> Since plaintext passw...
    Rule High Severity
  • Set the UEFI Boot Loader Password

    The grub2 boot loader should have a superuser account and password protection enabled to protect boot-time settings. <br><br> Since plaintext passw...
    Rule High Severity
  • zIPL bootloader configuration

    During the boot process, the bootloader is responsible for starting the execution of the kernel and passing options to it. The default Ubuntu 20.04...
    Group
  • Enable Auditing to Start Prior to the Audit Daemon in zIPL

    To ensure all processes can be audited, even those which start prior to the audit daemon, check that all boot entries in <code>/boot/loader/entries...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Extend Audit Backlog Limit for the Audit Daemon in zIPL

    To improve the kernel capacity to queue all log events, even those which start prior to the audit daemon, check that all boot entries in <code>/boo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Protect Random-Number Entropy Pool

    The I/O operations of the Linux kernel block layer due to their inherently unpredictable execution times have been traditionally considered as a re...
    Group

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