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Application Security and Development Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The application must audit the execution of privileged functions.

    <VulnDiscussion>Misuse of privileged functions, either intentionally or unintentionally by authorized users, or by unauthorized external enti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000065

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    Group
  • The application must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15 minute time period.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000345

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    Group
  • The application administrator must follow an approved process to unlock locked user accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Once a user account has been locked, it must be unlocked by an administrator. An ISSM and ISSO approved process must be crea...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000068

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    Group
  • The application must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the application.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Display of the DoD-approved use notification before granting access to the application ensures privacy and security notificat...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-APP-000069

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    Group
  • The application must retain the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner on the screen until users acknowledge the usage conditions and take explicit actions to log on for further access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The banner must be acknowledged by the user prior to allowing the user access to the application. This provides assurance tha...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-APP-000070

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    Group
  • SRG-APP-000089

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    Group
  • The publicly accessible application must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the application.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the publicly accessible application ensures...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-APP-000075

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must display the time and date of the users last successful logon.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Providing a last successful logon date and time stamp notification to the user when they authenticate and access the applicat...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-APP-000080

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    Group
  • The application must protect against an individual (or process acting on behalf of an individual) falsely denying having performed organization-defined actions to be covered by non-repudiation.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without non-repudiation, it is impossible to positively attribute an action to an individual (or process acting on behalf of ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000086

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    Group
  • For applications providing audit record aggregation, the application must compile audit records from organization-defined information system components into a system-wide audit trail that is time-correlated with an organization-defined level of tolerance for the relationship between time stamps of individual records in the audit trail.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the ability to collate records based on the time when the events occurred, the ability to perform forensic analysis a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000089

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    Group
  • The application must provide audit record generation capability for the creation of session IDs.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Applications create session IDs at the onset of a user session in order to manage user access to the application and differen...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000089

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    Group
  • The application must provide audit record generation capability for the destruction of session IDs.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Applications should destroy session IDs at the end of a user session in order to terminate user access to the application ses...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000089

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    Group
  • The application must provide audit record generation capability for the renewal of session IDs.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Application design sometimes requires the renewal of session IDs in order to continue approved user access to the application...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000089

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must not write sensitive data into the application logs.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is important to identify and exclude certain types of data that is written into the logs. If the logs are compromised and ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000089

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    Group
  • The application must provide audit record generation capability for session timeouts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When a user's session times out, it is important to be able to identify these events in the application logs. Without the ca...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The application must provide audit record generation capability for connecting system IP addresses.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000089

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    Group
  • The application must record the username or user ID of the user associated with the event.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users conduct activity within an application, that user’s identity must be recorded in the audit log. Failing to record ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000091

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to grant privileges occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000492

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access security objects occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Security objects represent application objects that provide or require security protections or have a security role within th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000493

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access security levels occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A security level denotes a permissions or authorization capability within the application. This is most often associated with...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000494

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access categories of information (e.g., classification levels) occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000495

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify privileges occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000496

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify security objects occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000497

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify security levels occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A security level denotes a permissions or authorization capability within the application. This is most often associated with...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000498

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify categories of information (e.g., classification levels) occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000499

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete security levels occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A security level denotes a permissions or authorization capability within the application. This is most often associated with...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000501

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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