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Microsoft Windows 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

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

    <VulnDiscussion>Allowing ICMP redirect of routes can lead to traffic not being routed properly. When disabled, this forces ICMP to be route...
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  • SRG-OS-000420-GPOS-00186

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  • 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, pr...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000073-GPOS-00041

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  • Secure Boot must be enabled on Windows 10 systems.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Secure Boot is a standard that ensures systems boot only to a trusted operating system. Secure Boot is required to support ad...
    Rule Low Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000191-GPOS-00080

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  • 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
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  • SRG-OS-000433-GPOS-00192

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  • 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
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  • SRG-OS-000134-GPOS-00068

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  • 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
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  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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  • 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
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  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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  • The maximum password age must be configured to 60 days or less.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The longer a password is in use, the greater the opportunity for someone to gain unauthorized knowledge of the passwords. Sch...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000075-GPOS-00043

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  • The minimum password age must be configured to at least 1 day.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Permitting passwords to be changed in immediate succession within the same day allows users to cycle passwords through their ...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000078-GPOS-00046

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  • Passwords must, at a minimum, be 14 characters.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information systems not protected with strong password schemes (including passwords of minimum length) provide the opportunit...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000069-GPOS-00037

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  • The built-in Microsoft password complexity filter must be enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The use of complex passwords increases their strength against guessing and brute-force attacks. This setting configures the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000073-GPOS-00041

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  • Reversible password encryption must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Storing passwords using reversible encryption is essentially the same as storing clear-text versions of the passwords. For th...
    Rule High Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000470-GPOS-00214

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  • Remote calls to the Security Account Manager (SAM) must be restricted to Administrators.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Windows Security Account Manager (SAM) stores users' passwords. Restricting remote rpc connections to the SAM to Adminis...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • NTLM must be prevented from falling back to a Null session.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;NTLM sessions that are allowed to fall back to Null (unauthenticated) sessions may gain unauthorized access.&lt;/VulnDiscussi...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • 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-join...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000120-GPOS-00061

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  • The Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service must not store RunAs credentials.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Storage of administrative credentials could allow unauthorized access. Disallowing the storage of RunAs credentials for Windo...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000125-GPOS-00065

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  • The Windows Remote Management (WinRM) client must not use Digest authentication.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Digest authentication is not as strong as other options and may be subject to man-in-the-middle attacks.&lt;/VulnDiscussion&g...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000028-GPOS-00009

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  • File Explorer shell protocol must run in protected mode.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The shell protocol will limit the set of folders applications can open when run in protected mode. Restricting files an app...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The built-in administrator account must be renamed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The built-in administrator account is a well-known account subject to attack. Renaming this account to an unidentified name ...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • SRG-OS-000074-GPOS-00042

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  • SRG-OS-000373-GPOS-00157

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  • SRG-OS-000373-GPOS-00157

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  • Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) must not be installed on the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Some protocols and services do not support required security features, such as encrypting passwords or traffic.&lt;/VulnDiscu...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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  • Simple TCP/IP Services must not be installed on the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Some protocols and services do not support required security features, such as encrypting passwords or traffic.&lt;/VulnDiscu...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000096-GPOS-00050

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  • The Telnet Client must not be installed on the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Some protocols and services do not support required security features, such as encrypting passwords or traffic.&lt;/VulnDiscu...
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  • SRG-OS-000096-GPOS-00050

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  • The TFTP Client must not be installed on the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Some protocols and services do not support required security features, such as encrypting passwords or traffic.&lt;/VulnDiscu...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • Software certificate installation files must be removed from Windows 10.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Use of software certificates and their accompanying installation files for end users to access resources is less secure than ...
    Rule Medium Severity
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