Virtual Machine Manager Security Requirements Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-OS-000250
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The VMM must implement cryptography to protect the integrity of remote access sessions.
<VulnDiscussion>Without cryptographic integrity protections, information can be altered by unauthorized users without detection. Remote acce...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000254
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The VMM must initiate session audits at system startup.
<VulnDiscussion>If auditing is enabled late in the startup process, the actions of some start-up processes may not be audited. Some audit sys...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000255
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The VMM must produce audit records containing information to establish the identity of any individual or process associated with the event.
<VulnDiscussion>Without information that establishes the identity of the subjects (i.e., users or processes acting on behalf of users) associ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000256
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The VMM must protect audit tools from unauthorized access.
<VulnDiscussion> Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, pr...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000257
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The VMM must protect audit tools from unauthorized modification.
<VulnDiscussion>Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, pro...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000258
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The VMM must protect audit tools from unauthorized deletion.
<VulnDiscussion>Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, pro...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000259
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The VMM must limit privileges to change software resident within software libraries.
<VulnDiscussion>If the VMM were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implemented without unde...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000266
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The VMM must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one special character be used.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity o...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000269
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
In the event of a system failure, the VMM must preserve any information necessary to determine cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to mission processes.
<VulnDiscussion> Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. F...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000274
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The VMM must notify system administrators and ISSOs when accounts are created.
<VulnDiscussion>Once an attacker establishes initial access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestab...Rule Medium Severity
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