Disable Modprobe Loading of USB Storage Driver

An XCCDF Rule

Description

To prevent USB storage devices from being used, configure the kernel module loading system to prevent automatic loading of the USB storage driver. To configure the system to prevent the usb-storage kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to the file /etc/modprobe.d/usb-storage.conf:

install usb-storage /bin/true

This will prevent the modprobe program from loading the usb-storage module, but will not prevent an administrator (or another program) from using the insmod program to load the module manually.

Rationale

USB storage devices such as thumb drives can be used to introduce malicious software.

ID: xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_kernel_module_usb-storage_disabled
Severity: Medium
References: 1 12 15 16 5

APO13.01 DSS01.04 DSS05.03 DSS05.04 DSS05.05 DSS05.07 DSS05.10 DSS06.03 DSS06.10

3.1.21

CCI-000366 CCI-000778 CCI-001958

164.308(a)(3)(i) 164.308(a)(3)(ii)(A) 164.310(d)(1) 164.310(d)(2) 164.312(a)(1) 164.312(a)(2)(iv) 164.312(b)

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 1.13 SR 1.2 SR 1.3 SR 1.4 SR 1.5 SR 1.7 SR 1.8 SR 1.9 SR 2.1 SR 2.6

A.11.2.6 A.13.1.1 A.13.2.1 A.18.1.4 A.6.2.1 A.6.2.2 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) CM-7(a) CM-7(b) MP-7

PR.AC-1 PR.AC-3 PR.AC-6 PR.AC-7

SRG-OS-000114-GPOS-00059 SRG-OS-000378-GPOS-00163 SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

3.4.2
Updated: about 1 year ago