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Virtual Machine Manager Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-OS-000300

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  • The VMM must protect wireless access to the system using authentication of users and/or devices.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Allowing devices and users to connect to the system without first authenticating them allows untrusted access and can lead to...
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  • SRG-OS-000303

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  • The VMM must automatically audit 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-000304

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  • The VMM must notify the system administrator and ISSO 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 VMM must implement discretionary access controls to allow VMM admins to pass information to any other VMM admin, user, or guest VM.

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

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  • The VMM must implement discretionary access controls to allow VMM admins to grant their privileges to other VMM 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 VMM must implement discretionary access controls to allow VMM admins to change security attributes on users, guest VMs, the VMM, or the VMMs 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-000312

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  • The VMM must implement discretionary access controls to allow VMM admins to choose the security attributes to be associated with newly created or revised guest VMs.

    &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 VMM must prevent non-privileged 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 proc...
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  • SRG-OS-000326

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

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In certain situations, guest VMs, applications, and programs need to execute with elevated privileges to perform required fun...
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  • SRG-OS-000327

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  • The VMM 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 en...
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  • SRG-OS-000329

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  • The VMM must automatically lock an account until the locked account is released by an administrator, when three unsuccessful logon attempts in 15 minutes are made.

    &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 VMM must provide the capability for assigned IMOs/ISSOs or designated SAs to change the auditing to be performed on all VMM 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 VMM must allocate audit record storage capacity to store at least one weeks 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 VMMs have a sufficient storage capacity in which to write the audit logs, VMMs need to be able to allocate...
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  • SRG-OS-000342

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  • The VMM must off-load audit records onto a different system or media than the system being audited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common...
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  • SRG-OS-000343

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  • The VMM must provide an immediate warning to the SA and ISSO, at a minimum, when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75% of repository maximum audit record storage capacity.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If security personnel are not notified immediately when storage volume reaches 75%, they are unable to plan for audit record ...
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  • SRG-OS-000344

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  • The VMM must provide an immediate real-time alert to the SA and ISSO, at a minimum, of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a VMM is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Wi...
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  • SRG-OS-000348

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  • The VMM must provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand audit review and analysis.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ability to perform on-demand audit review and analysis, including after the audit data has been subjected to audit reduct...
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  • SRG-OS-000349

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  • The VMM must provide an audit reduction capability that supports after-the-fact investigations of security incidents.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt; If the audit reduction capability does not support after-the-fact investigations, it is difficult to establish, correlate, a...
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  • SRG-OS-000350

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  • The VMM must provide a report generation capability that supports on-demand audit review and analysis.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The report generation capability must support on-demand review and analysis in order to facilitate the organization's ability...
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  • SRG-OS-000351

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  • The VMM must provide a report generation capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The report generation capability must support on-demand reporting in order to facilitate the organization's ability to genera...
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  • SRG-OS-000352

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  • The VMM must provide a report generation capability that supports after-the-fact investigations of security incidents.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the report generation capability does not support after-the-fact investigations, it is difficult to establish, correlate, ...
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  • SRG-OS-000353

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  • The VMM that provides an audit reduction capability must not alter original content or time ordering of audit records.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt; If the audit reduction capability alters the content or time ordering of audit records, the integrity of the audit records i...
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  • SRG-OS-000354

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  • The VMM that provides a report generation capability must not alter original content or time ordering of audit records.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the report generation capability alters the content or time ordering of audit records, the integrity of the audit records ...
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  • SRG-OS-000355

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  • The VMM must, for networked systems, compare internal information system clocks at least every 24 hours with a server which is synchronized to one of the redundant United States Naval Observatory (USNO) time servers or a time server designated for the appropriate DoD network (NIPRNet/SIPRNet), and/or the Global Positioning System (GPS).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt; Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the co...
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  • SRG-OS-000356

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  • The VMM must synchronize internal information system clocks to the authoritative time source when the time difference is greater than one second.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the cor...
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