Configure SSSD to Expire Offline Credentials

An XCCDF Rule

Description

SSSD should be configured to expire offline credentials after 1 day. Check if SSSD allows cached authentications with the following command:

$ sudo grep cache_credentials /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
cache_credentials = true

If "cache_credentials" is set to "false" or is missing no further checks are required.
To configure SSSD to expire offline credentials, set offline_credentials_expiration to 1 under the [pam] section in /etc/sssd/sssd.conf. For example:

[pam]
offline_credentials_expiration = 1

Rationale

If cached authentication information is out-of-date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable.

ID: xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_sssd_offline_cred_expiration
Severity: Medium
References: 1 12 15 16 5

DSS05.04 DSS05.05 DSS05.07 DSS05.10 DSS06.03 DSS06.10

CCI-002007

4.3.3.2.2 4.3.3.5.1 4.3.3.5.2 4.3.3.6.1 4.3.3.6.2 4.3.3.6.3 4.3.3.6.4 4.3.3.6.5 4.3.3.6.6 4.3.3.6.7 4.3.3.6.8 4.3.3.6.9 4.3.3.7.2 4.3.3.7.4

SR 1.1 SR 1.10 SR 1.2 SR 1.3 SR 1.4 SR 1.5 SR 1.7 SR 1.8 SR 1.9 SR 2.1

A.18.1.4 A.7.1.1 A.9.2.1 A.9.2.2 A.9.2.3 A.9.2.4 A.9.2.6 A.9.3.1 A.9.4.2 A.9.4.3

CM-6(a) IA-5(13)

PR.AC-1 PR.AC-6 PR.AC-7

SRG-OS-000383-GPOS-00166

SV-258133r926386_rule
Updated: about 1 month ago

Remediation Templates

- name: Gather the package facts
  package_facts:
    manager: auto
  tags:
  - DISA-STIG-RHEL-09-631020
  - NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)  - NIST-800-53-IA-5(13)
  - configure_strategy
  - low_complexity
  - medium_disruption
  - medium_severity
  - no_reboot_needed
  - sssd_offline_cred_expiration
- name: Test for domain group
  command: grep '\s*\[domain\/[^]]*]' /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
  register: test_grep_domain
  failed_when: false
  changed_when: false
  check_mode: false
  when:
  - '"sssd-common" in ansible_facts.packages'
  - ansible_virtualization_type not in ["docker", "lxc", "openvz", "podman", "container"]
  tags:
  - DISA-STIG-RHEL-09-631020
  - NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)
  - NIST-800-53-IA-5(13)
  - configure_strategy
  - low_complexity
  - medium_disruption
  - medium_severity
  - no_reboot_needed
  - sssd_offline_cred_expiration

- name: Add default domain group (if no domain there)
  ini_file:
    path: /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
    section: '{{ item.section }}'
    option: '{{ item.option }}'
    value: '{{ item.value }}'
    create: true
    mode: 384
  with_items:
  - section: sssd
    option: domains
    value: default
  - section: domain/default
    option: id_provider
    value: files
  when:
  - '"sssd-common" in ansible_facts.packages'
  - ansible_virtualization_type not in ["docker", "lxc", "openvz", "podman", "container"]
  - test_grep_domain.stdout is defined
  - test_grep_domain.stdout | length < 1
  tags:
  - DISA-STIG-RHEL-09-631020
  - NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)
  - NIST-800-53-IA-5(13)
  - configure_strategy
  - low_complexity
  - medium_disruption
  - medium_severity
  - no_reboot_needed
  - sssd_offline_cred_expiration

- name: Configure SSD to Expire Offline Credentials
  ini_file:
    dest: /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
    section: pam
    option: offline_credentials_expiration
    value: 1
    create: true
    mode: 384
  when:
  - '"sssd-common" in ansible_facts.packages'
  - ansible_virtualization_type not in ["docker", "lxc", "openvz", "podman", "container"]
  tags:
  - DISA-STIG-RHEL-09-631020
  - NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)
  - NIST-800-53-IA-5(13)
  - configure_strategy
  - low_complexity
  - medium_disruption
  - medium_severity
  - no_reboot_needed
  - sssd_offline_cred_expiration

- name: Find all the conf files inside /etc/sssd/conf.d/
  find:
    paths: /etc/sssd/conf.d/
    patterns: '*.conf'
  register: sssd_conf_d_files
  when:
  - '"sssd-common" in ansible_facts.packages'
  - ansible_virtualization_type not in ["docker", "lxc", "openvz", "podman", "container"]
  tags:
  - DISA-STIG-RHEL-09-631020
  - NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)
  - NIST-800-53-IA-5(13)
  - configure_strategy
  - low_complexity
  - medium_disruption
  - medium_severity
  - no_reboot_needed
  - sssd_offline_cred_expiration

- name: Fix offline_credentials_expiration configuration in /etc/sssd/conf.d/
  ansible.builtin.replace:
    path: '{{ item.path }}'
    regexp: '[^#]*offline_credentials_expiration.*'
    replace: offline_credentials_expiration = 1
  with_items: '{{ sssd_conf_d_files.files }}'
  when:
  - '"sssd-common" in ansible_facts.packages'
  - ansible_virtualization_type not in ["docker", "lxc", "openvz", "podman", "container"]
  tags:
  - DISA-STIG-RHEL-09-631020
  - NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)
  - NIST-800-53-IA-5(13)
  - configure_strategy
  - low_complexity
  - medium_disruption
  - medium_severity
  - no_reboot_needed
  - sssd_offline_cred_expiration

# Remediation is applicable only in certain platforms
if rpm --quiet -q sssd-common && { [ ! -f /.dockerenv ] && [ ! -f /run/.containerenv ]; }; then
# sssd configuration files must be created with 600 permissions if they don't exist
# otherwise the sssd module fails to start
OLD_UMASK=$(umask)
umask u=rw,go=
found=false

# set value in all files if they contain section or key
for f in $(echo -n "/etc/sssd/sssd.conf /etc/sssd/conf.d/*.conf"); do
    if [ ! -e "$f" ]; then
        continue
    fi

    # find key in section and change value
    if grep -qzosP "[[:space:]]*\[pam\]([^\n\[]*\n+)+?[[:space:]]*offline_credentials_expiration" "$f"; then

            sed -i "s/offline_credentials_expiration[^(\n)]*/offline_credentials_expiration=1/" "$f"

            found=true

    # find section and add key = value to it
    elif grep -qs "[[:space:]]*\[pam\]" "$f"; then

            sed -i "/[[:space:]]*\[pam\]/a offline_credentials_expiration=1" "$f"

            found=true
    fi
done

# if section not in any file, append section with key = value to FIRST file in files parameter
if ! $found ; then
    file=$(echo "/etc/sssd/sssd.conf /etc/sssd/conf.d/*.conf" | cut -f1 -d ' ')
    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$file")"

    echo -e "[pam]\noffline_credentials_expiration=1" >> "$file"

fi

umask $OLD_UMASK

else
    >&2 echo 'Remediation is not applicable, nothing was done'
fi

Configure SSSD to Expire Offline Credentials

Description

Rationale

Remediation Templates

An Ansible Snippet

A Shell Script