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F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • When the Access Profile Type is LTM+APM and it is not using any connectivity resources (such as Network Access, Portal Access, etc.) in the VPE, the F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to enable the HTTP Only flag.

    <VulnDiscussion>To guard against cookie hijacking, only the BIG-IP APM controller and client must be able to view the full session ID. Settin...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000233-ALG-000115

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to enable the "Secure" cookie flag.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To guard against cookie hijacking, only the BIG-IP APM controller and client must be able to view the full session ID. Sessio...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000233-ALG-000115

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to disable the "Persistent" cookie flag.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;For BIG-IP APM deployments with connectivity resources (such as Network Access, Portal Access, etc.), BIG-IP APM cookies cann...
    Rule Low Severity
  • The BIG-IP APM module must restrict user authentication traffic to specific authentication server(s) when providing user authentication to virtual servers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;User authentication can be used as part of the policy filtering rule sets. Some URLs or network resources can be restricted t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000140-ALG-000094

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The BIG-IP APM module must use multifactor authentication for network access to non-privileged accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, non-privileged users must utilize multifactor authentication to ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000166-ALG-000101

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The BIG-IP APM module must map the authenticated identity to the user account for PKI-based authentication to virtual servers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Authorization for access to any network element requires an approved and assigned individual account identifier. To ensure on...
    Rule Medium Severity

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