IBM z/OS ACF2 Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
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IBM z/OS Certificate Name Filtering must be implemented with appropriate authorization and documentation.
<VulnDiscussion>To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to pre...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000066-GPOS-00034
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IBM z/OS must not use Expired Digital Certificates.
<VulnDiscussion>Without path validation, an informed trust decision by the relying party cannot be made when presented with any certificate n...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000066-GPOS-00034
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All IBM z/OS digital certificates in use must have a valid path to a trusted Certification authority.
<VulnDiscussion>Without path validation, an informed trust decision by the relying party cannot be made when presented with any certificate n...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000001-GPOS-00001
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CA-ACF2 OPTS GSO record must be set to ABORT mode.
<VulnDiscussion>Enterprise environments make account management challenging and complex. A manual process for account management functions ad...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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The number of ACF2 users granted the special privilege PPGM must be justified.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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The number of ACF2 users granted the special privilege OPERATOR must be kept to a strictly controlled minimum.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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The number of ACF2 users granted the special privilege CONSOLE must be justified.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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The number of ACF2 users granted the special privilege ALLCMDS must be justified.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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IBM z/OS system commands must be properly protected.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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IBM z/OS Sensitive Utility Controls must be properly defined and protected.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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CA-ACF2 NJE GSO record value must indicate validation options that apply to jobs submitted through a network job entry subsystem (JES2, JES3, RSCS).
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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CA-ACF2 must protect Memory and privileged program dumps in accordance with proper security requirements.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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CA-ACF2 must properly define users that have access to the CONSOLE resource in the TSOAUTH resource class.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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CA-ACF2 must limit access to SYSTEM DUMP data sets to appropriate authorized users.
<VulnDiscussion>Access control policies include: identity-based policies, role-based policies, and attribute-based policies. Access enforceme...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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CA-ACF2 must limit access to SYS(x).TRACE to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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CA-ACF2 allocate access to system user catalogs must be properly protected.
<VulnDiscussion>Access control policies include: identity-based policies, role-based policies, and attribute-based policies. Access enforceme...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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ACF2 Classes required to properly security the z/OS UNIX environment must be ACTIVE.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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Access to IBM z/OS special privilege TAPE-LBL or TAPE-BLP must be limited and/or justified.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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CA-ACF2 must limit access to System page data sets (i.e., PLPA, COMMON, and LOCALx) to system programmers.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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IBM z/OS must protect dynamic lists in accordance with proper security requirements.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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IBM z/OS Libraries included in the system REXXLIB concatenation must be properly protected.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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CA-ACF2 must limit Write or greater access to SYS1.UADS To system programmers only and read and update access must be limited to system programmer personnel and/or security personnel.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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CA-ACF2 must limit all system PROCLIB data sets to appropriate authorized users.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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CA-ACF2 access to the System Master Catalog must be properly protected.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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IBM z/OS MCS consoles access authorization(s) for CONSOLE resource(s) must be properly protected.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Medium Severity
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