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IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Department of Defense (DoD) login banner must be displayed during SSH, sftp, and scp login sessions on AIX.

    <VulnDiscussion>Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the operating system ensures privacy and se...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000228-GPOS-00088

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Any publically accessible connection to AIX operating system must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the publicly accessible operating system en...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • AIX must turn on SSH daemon reverse name checking.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If reverse name checking is off, SSH may allow a remote attacker to circumvent security policies and attempt to or actually l...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • AIX must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is located on a secondary storage device (e.g., disk drive and...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000355-GPOS-00143

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • AIX must provide time synchronization applications that can synchronize the system clock to external time sources at least every 24 hours.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the cor...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • All AIX NFS anonymous UIDs and GIDs must be configured to values without permissions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When an NFS server is configured to deny remote root access, a selected UID and GID are used to handle requests from the remo...
    Rule Medium Severity

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