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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - open

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - open_by_handle_at

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Creation Attempts to Files - open_by_handle_at O_CREAT

    The audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. The <code>open_by_handle_at</code> syscall can be used to create...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Modification Attempts to Files - open_by_handle_at O_TRUNC_WRITE

    The audit system should collect detailed unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. The <code>open_by_handle_at</code> syscall can be used ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Unauthorized Access Attempts To open_by_handle_at Are Ordered Correctly

    The audit system should collect detailed unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. To correctly identify unsuccessful creation, unsuccessf...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Creation Attempts to Files - open O_CREAT

    The audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. The <code>open</code> syscall can be used to create new files wh...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Modification Attempts to Files - open O_TRUNC_WRITE

    The audit system should collect detailed unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. The <code>open</code> syscall can be used to modify fil...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Rules For Unauthorized Attempts To open Are Ordered Correctly

    The audit system should collect detailed unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. To correctly identify unsuccessful creation, unsuccessf...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - openat

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Creation Attempts to Files - openat O_CREAT

    The audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. The <code>openat</code> syscall can be used to create new files ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Modification Attempts to Files - openat O_TRUNC_WRITE

    The audit system should collect detailed unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. The <code>openat</code> syscall can be used to modify f...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Rules For Unauthorized Attempts To openat Are Ordered Correctly

    The audit system should collect detailed unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. To correctly identify unsuccessful creation, unsuccessf...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Permission Changes to Files - removexattr

    The audit system should collect unsuccessful file permission change attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configure...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Delete Attempts to Files - rename

    The audit system should collect unsuccessful file deletion attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Delete Attempts to Files - renameat

    The audit system should collect unsuccessful file deletion attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Permission Changes to Files - setxattr

    The audit system should collect unsuccessful file permission change attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configure...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable Kernel Parameter to Ignore Bogus ICMP Error Responses on IPv4 Interfaces

    To set the runtime status of the <code>net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses</code> kernel parameter, run the following command: <pre>$ sudo s...
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Set Kernel Parameter to Increase Local Port Range

    To set the runtime status of the <code>net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range</code> kernel parameter, run the following command: <pre>$ sudo sysctl -w net.i...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - truncate

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Delete Attempts to Files - unlink

    The audit system should collect unsuccessful file deletion attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use...
    Rule Medium Severity

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