The IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server must not use the root account for transfers.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
By incorporating a least privilege approach to the configuration of the Aspera HSTS platform, this will reduce the exposure of privileged accounts. By default, all system users can establish a FASP connection and are only restricted by file permissions.
- ID
- SV-252640r818090_rule
- Version
- ASP4-TS-020240
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Configure the Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server to restrict the use of the root account for transfers.
For each privilege that is set to "true", run the following command:
$ sudo /opt/aspera/bin/asconfigurator -x "set_user_data;user_name,root;<privilege>,false"