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Canonical Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Ubuntu operating system must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.

    Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. If the information system or application allows the user...
    Rule Low Severity
  • The Ubuntu operating system must be configured so that the script which runs each 30 days or less to check file integrity is the default one.

    Without verification of the security functions, security functions may not operate correctly and the failure may go unnoticed. Security function is defined as the hardware, software, and/or firmwar...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Ubuntu operating system must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /etc/passwd.

    Once an attacker establishes access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to create an acco...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Ubuntu operating system must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /etc/opasswd.

    Once an attacker establishes access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to create an acco...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Ubuntu operating system must shut down by default upon audit failure (unless availability is an overriding concern).

    It is critical that when the operating system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it takes action to mitigate the failure. Audit processing failures include: software/hardware ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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