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IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • AIX must turn on SSH daemon privilege separation.

    <VulnDiscussion>SSH daemon privilege separation causes the SSH process to drop root privileges when not needed, which would decrease the impa...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • If bash is used, AIX must display logout messages.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If a user cannot explicitly end an operating system session, the session may remain open and be exploited by an attacker; thi...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000281-GPOS-00111

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • If Bourne / ksh shell is used, AIX must display logout messages.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If a user cannot explicitly end an operating system session, the session may remain open and be exploited by an attacker; thi...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000281-GPOS-00111

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • If csh/tcsh shell is used, AIX must display logout messages.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If a user cannot explicitly end an operating system session, the session may remain open and be exploited by an attacker; thi...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • AIX must implement a remote syslog server that is documented using site-defined procedures.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If a remote log host is in use and it has not been justified and documented, sensitive information could be obtained by unaut...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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