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Microsoft Windows 11 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Inbound exceptions to the firewall on Windows 11 domain workstations must only allow authorized remote management hosts.

    <VulnDiscussion>Allowing inbound access to domain workstations from other systems may allow lateral movement across systems if credentials ar...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000433-GPOS-00193

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Data Execution Prevention (DEP) must be configured to at least OptOut.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Attackers are constantly looking for vulnerabilities in systems and applications. Data Execution Prevention (DEP) prevents ha...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000433-GPOS-00192

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Structured Exception Handling Overwrite Protection (SEHOP) must be enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Attackers are constantly looking for vulnerabilities in systems and applications. Structured Exception Handling Overwrite Pro...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Windows PowerShell 2.0 feature must be disabled on the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Windows PowerShell 5.0 added advanced logging features which can provide additional detail when malware has been run on a sys...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • User Account Control must run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode, enabling UAC.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;User Account Control (UAC) is a security mechanism for limiting the elevation of privileges, including administrative account...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000134-GPOS-00068

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Solicited Remote Assistance must not be allowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Remote assistance allows another user to view or take control of the local session of a user. Solicited assistance is help th...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000379-GPOS-00164

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Unauthenticated RPC clients must be restricted from connecting to the RPC server.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Configuring RPC to restrict unauthenticated RPC clients from connecting to the RPC server will prevent anonymous connections....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • PKU2U authentication using online identities must be prevented.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;PKU2U is a peer-to-peer authentication protocol. This setting prevents online identities from authenticating to domain-joine...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000120-GPOS-00061

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The system must be configured to prevent Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirects from overriding Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) generated routes.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Allowing ICMP redirect of routes can lead to traffic not being routed properly. When disabled, this forces ICMP to be routed...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000420-GPOS-00186

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Kerberos encryption types must be configured to prevent the use of DES and RC4 encryption suites.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Certain encryption types are no longer considered secure. This setting configures a minimum encryption type for Kerberos, pre...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000073-GPOS-00041

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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