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Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000311

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  • The Mainframe Product must associate types of security attributes having security attribute values as defined in site security plan with information in storage.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the association of security attributes to information, there is no basis for the application to make security related...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000313

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  • The Mainframe Product must associate types of security attributes having security attribute values as defined in site security plan with information in process.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the association of security attributes to information, there is no basis for the application to make security related...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000317

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must terminate shared/group account credentials when members leave the group.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If shared/group account credentials are not terminated when individuals leave the group, the user that left the group can sti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000319

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must automatically audit account enabling actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Once an attacker establishes access to an application, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of re-establ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000320

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators of account enabling actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Once an attacker establishes access to an application, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of re-establ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000328

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must enforce organization-defined discretionary access control policies over defined subjects and objects.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have di...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000340

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  • The Mainframe Product must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proce...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000342

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  • The Mainframe Product must automatically lock the account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts in 15 minutes are exceeded.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000357

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  • The mainframe product must allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In order to ensure applications have a sufficient storage capacity in which to write the audit logs, applications need to be ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000358

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  • The Mainframe Product must off-load audit records onto a different system or media than the system being audited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common...
    Rule Medium Severity

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