AAA Services Security Requirements Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-APP-000375
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AAA Services must be configured with a minimum granularity of one second to record time stamps for audit records.
<VulnDiscussion>Without sufficient granularity of time stamps, it is not possible to adequately determine the chronological order of records....Rule Medium Severity -
AAA Services must be configured to notify the system administrators (SAs) and information system security officer (ISSO) for account removal actions.
<VulnDiscussion>When application accounts are removed, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying users or for ide...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000319
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AAA Services must be configured to automatically audit account enabling actions.
<VulnDiscussion>Once an attacker establishes access to an application, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestabli...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000320
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AAA Services must be configured to notify system administrators (SAs) and information system security officer (ISSO) of account enabling actions.
<VulnDiscussion>Once an attacker establishes access to an application, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestabli...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000345
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AAA Services must be configured to maintain locks on user accounts until released by an administrator.
<VulnDiscussion>By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000358
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AAA Services must be configured to send audit records to a centralized audit server.
<VulnDiscussion>Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000374
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AAA Services must be configured to use or map to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to record time stamps for audit records.
<VulnDiscussion>If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analys...Rule Medium Severity -
AAA Services used for 802.1x must be configured to authenticate network endpoint devices (supplicants) before the authenticator establishes any connection.
<VulnDiscussion>Without authenticating devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AAA Services must be configured to use at least two NTP servers to synchronize time.
<VulnDiscussion>Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the cor...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AAA Services must be configured to authenticate all NTP messages received from NTP servers and peers.
<VulnDiscussion>Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the cor...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AAA Services must be configured to use their loopback or OOB management interface address as the source address when originating NTP traffic.
<VulnDiscussion>Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the cor...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AAA Services used for 802.1x must be configured to use secure Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), such as EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, and PEAP.
<VulnDiscussion>Additional new EAP methods/types are still being proposed. However, the three being considered secure are EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
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AAA Services must not be configured with shared accounts.
<VulnDiscussion>Shared accounts configured for use on a network device do not allow for accountability or repudiation of individuals using th...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AAA Services used to authenticate privileged users for device management must be configured to connect to the management network.
<VulnDiscussion>Using standardized authentication protocols such as RADIUS, TACACS+, and Kerberos, an authentication server provides centrali...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AAA Services must be configured to use a unique shared secret for communication (i.e. RADIUS, TACACS+) with clients requesting authentication services.
<VulnDiscussion>Using standardized authentication protocols such as RADIUS, TACACS+, and Kerberos, an authentication server provides centrali...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AAA Services must be configured to use IP segments separate from production VLAN IP segments.
<VulnDiscussion>When policy assessment and remediation have been implemented and the advanced AAA server dynamic VLAN is misconfigured, logic...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AAA Services must be configured to place non-authenticated network access requests in the Unauthorized VLAN or the Guest VLAN with limited access.
<VulnDiscussion>Devices having an IP address that do not pass authentication can be used to attack compliant devices if they share VLANs. Whe...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AAA Services must be configured in accordance with the security configuration settings based on DoD security configuration or implementation guidance, including STIGs, NSA configuration guides, CTOs, and DTMs.
<VulnDiscussion>Configuring the application to implement organization-wide security implementation guides and security checklists ensures com...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000700
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AAA Services must be configured to disable accounts when the accounts have expired.
<VulnDiscussion>Disabling expired, inactive, or otherwise anomalous accounts supports the concepts of least privilege and least functionality...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000705
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AAA Services must be configured to disable accounts when the accounts are no longer associated to a user.
<VulnDiscussion>Disabling expired, inactive, or otherwise anomalous accounts supports the concepts of least privilege and least functionality...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000710
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AAA Services must be configured to disable accounts when the accounts are in violation of organizational policy.
<VulnDiscussion>Disabling expired, inactive, or otherwise anomalous accounts supports the concepts of least privilege and least functionality...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000805
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AAA Services must be configured to automatically generate audit records of the enforcement actions.
<VulnDiscussion>Organizations log system accesses associated with applying configuration changes to ensure that configuration change control ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000815
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For password-based authentication, AAA Services must be configured to update the list of passwords when organizational passwords are suspected to have been compromised directly or indirectly.
<VulnDiscussion>Password-based authentication applies to passwords regardless of whether they are used in single-factor or multi-factor authe...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000845
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
For password-based authentication, AAA Services must be configured to verify when users create or update passwords, and that the passwords are not on the list of commonly-used, expected, or compromised passwords in IA-5 (1) (a).
<VulnDiscussion>Password-based authentication applies to passwords regardless of whether they are used in single-factor or multi-factor authe...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000855
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
For password-based authentication, AAA Services must be configured to require immediate selection of a new password upon account recovery.
<VulnDiscussion>Password-based authentication applies to passwords regardless of whether they are used in single-factor or multi-factor authe...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000860
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
For password-based authentication, AAA Services must be configured to allow user selection of long passwords and passphrases, including spaces and all printable characters.
<VulnDiscussion>Password-based authentication applies to passwords regardless of whether they are used in single-factor or multi-factor authe...Rule Medium Severity
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