IBM z/OS TSS Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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IBM z/OS libraries included in the system REXXLIB concatenation must be properly protected.
<VulnDiscussion>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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CA-TSS must limit Write or greater access to all LPA libraries to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>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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CA-TSS must limit Write or greater access to SYS1.NUCLEUS to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>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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CA-TSS must limit Write or greater access to libraries that contain PPT modules to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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CA-TSS must limit WRITE or greater access to LINKLIST libraries to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proce...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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CA-TSS security data sets and/or databases must be properly protected.
<VulnDiscussion>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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CA-TSS must limit access to the System Master Catalog to appropriate authorized users.
<VulnDiscussion>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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CA-TSS allocate access to system user catalogs must be limited to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>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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CA-TSS must limit WRITE or greater access to all system-level product installation libraries to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>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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CA-TSS must limit WRITE or greater access to the JES2 System data sets (e.g., Spool, Checkpoint, and Initialization parameters) to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>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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CA-TSS must limit Write or greater access to SYS1.UADS to system programmers only, and Read and Update access must be limited to system programmer personnel and/or security personnel.
<VulnDiscussion>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 CA-TSS HPBPW Control Option must be set to three days maximum.
<VulnDiscussion>Configuring the operating system to implement organization-wide security implementation guides and security checklists ensure...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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CA-TSS 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.
<VulnDiscussion>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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CA-TSS must limit access to SYSTEM DUMP data sets to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>System DUMP data sets are used to record system data areas and virtual storage associated with system task failures. Unauthor...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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CA-TSS WRITE or Greater access to System backup files must be limited to system programmers and/or batch jobs that perform DASD backups.
<VulnDiscussion>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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CA-TSS must limit access to SYS(x).TRACE to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>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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CA-TSS must limit access to System page data sets (i.e., PLPA, COMMON, and LOCALx) to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>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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CA-TSS must limit WRITE or greater access to libraries containing EXIT modules to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>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-000324-GPOS-00125
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CA-TSS must limit all system PROCLIB data sets to system programmers only and appropriate authorized users.
<VulnDiscussion>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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CA-TSS must protect memory and privileged program dumps in accordance with proper security requirements.
<VulnDiscussion>Access control policies include: identity-based policies, role-based policies, and attribute-based policies. Access enforceme...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
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IBM z/OS must protect dynamic lists in accordance with proper security requirements.
<VulnDiscussion>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 CA-TSS INSTDATA Control Option must be set to 0.
<VulnDiscussion>Configuring the operating system to implement organization-wide security implementation guides and security checklists ensure...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The CA-TSS OPTIONS Control Option must include option 4 at a minimum.
<VulnDiscussion>Configuring the operating system to implement organization-wide security implementation guides and security checklists ensure...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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IBM z/OS system commands must be properly protected.
<VulnDiscussion>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.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule Medium Severity
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