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IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • AIX system must require authentication upon booting into single-user and maintenance modes.

    <VulnDiscussion>This prevents attackers with physical access from trivially bypassing security on the machine and gaining root access. Such a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000281-GPOS-00111

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    Group
  • The control script lists of preloaded libraries must contain only absolute paths on AIX systems.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The library preload list environment variable contains a list of libraries for the dynamic linker to load before loading the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • AIX must define default permissions for all authenticated users in such a way that the user can only read and modify their own files.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Setting the most restrictive default permissions ensures that when new accounts are created they do not have unnecessary acce...
    Rule Medium Severity

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