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IBM z/OS RACF Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF allocate access to system user catalogs must be properly protected.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF must limit WRITE or greater access to System backup files to system programmers and/or batch jobs that perform DASD backups.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF must limit access to SYS(x).TRACE to system programmers only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM z/OS must not have duplicated sensitive utilities and/or programs existing in APF libraries.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Removal of unneeded or non-secure functions, ports, protocols, and services mitigate the risk of unauthorized connection of d...
    Rule Low Severity
  • IBM RACF batch jobs must be properly secured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Batch jobs that are submitted to the operating system should inherit the USERID of the submitter. This will identify the batc...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF batch jobs must be protected with propagation control.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF must limit Write or greater access to SYS1.IMAGELIB to system programmers only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF must limit Write or greater access to SYS1.SVCLIB to appropriate authorized users.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF must limit Write or greater access to SYS1.LPALIB to system programmers only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM z/OS libraries included in the system REXXLIB concatenation must be properly protected.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Access control policies include: identity-based policies, role-based policies, and attribute-based policies. Access enforceme...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF must limit write or greater access to all LPA libraries to system programmers only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF must limit Write or greater access to libraries containing EXIT modules to system programmers only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • The IBM z/OS JES(XBMALLRACF) SETROPTS value must be set to JES(XBMALLRACF).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In certain situations, software applications/programs need to execute with elevated privileges to perform required functions....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • IBM RACF must limit WRITE or greater access to all system-level product installation libraries to system programmers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF must limit access to SYSTEM DUMP data sets to system programmers only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF must limit WRITE or greater access to all APF-authorized libraries to system programmers only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF access to SYS1.LINKLIB must be properly protected.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DOD-ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • SRG-OS-000327-GPOS-00127

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  • SRG-OS-000396-GPOS-00176

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  • The IBM RACF System REXX IRRPWREX security data set must be properly protected.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF security data sets and/or databases must be properly protected.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The External Security Manager (ESM) database files contain all access control information for the operating system environmen...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF must limit access to data sets used to back up and/or dump SMF collection files to appropriate users and/or batch jobs that perform SMF dump processing.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF must limit all system PROCLIB data sets to system programmers only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF must limit access to System page data sets (i.e., PLPA, COMMON, and LOCALx) to system programmers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM z/OS MCS consoles access authorization(s) for CONSOLE resource(s) must be properly protected.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;MCS consoles can be used to issue operator commands. Failure to properly control access to MCS consoles could result in unaut...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • IBM RACF must limit WRITE or greater access to the JES2 System data sets (e.g., Spool, Checkpoint, and Initialization parameters) to system programmers only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000324-GPOS-00125

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  • The IBM z/OS IEASYMUP resource must be protected in accordance with proper security requirements.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proce...
    Rule Medium Severity

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