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IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Audit logs on the AIX system must be set to 660 or less permissive.

    <VulnDiscussion>Unauthorized disclosure of audit records can reveal system and configuration data to attackers, thus compromising its confide...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • AIX must provide audit record generation functionality for DoD-defined auditable events.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000254-GPOS-00095

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • AIX must start audit at boot.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If auditing is enabled late in the start-up process, the actions of some start-up processes may not be audited. Some audit sy...
    Rule Medium Severity

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