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General Purpose Operating System Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-OS-000304

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  • The operating system must notify system administrators and ISSOs of account enabling actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Once an attacker establishes access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing ...
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  • SRG-OS-000312

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  • The operating system must allow operating system admins to pass information to any other operating system admin or user.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have di...
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  • SRG-OS-000312

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  • The operating system must allow operating system admins to grant their privileges to other operating system admins.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have di...
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  • SRG-OS-000312

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  • The operating system must allow operating system admins to change security attributes on users, the operating system, or the operating systems components.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have di...
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  • SRG-OS-000324

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  • The operating system must prevent nonprivileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proce...
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  • SRG-OS-000326

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  • The operating system must prevent all software from executing at higher privilege levels than users executing the software.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In certain situations, software applications/programs need to execute with elevated privileges to perform required functions....
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  • SRG-OS-000327

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  • The operating system 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...
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  • SRG-OS-000329

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  • The operating system must automatically lock an account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts in 15 minutes occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...
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  • SRG-OS-000337

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  • The operating system must provide the capability for assigned IMOs/ISSOs or designated SAs to change the auditing to be performed on all operating system components, based on all selectable event criteria in near real time.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If authorized individuals do not have the ability to modify auditing parameters in response to a changing threat environment,...
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  • SRG-OS-000341

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  • The operating system must allocate audit record storage capacity to store at least one week's worth of audit records, when audit records are not immediately sent to a central audit record storage facility.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In order to ensure operating systems have a sufficient storage capacity in which to write the audit logs, operating systems n...
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