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Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • AIX must turn off X11 forwarding for the SSH daemon.

    X11 forwarding over SSH allows for the secure remote execution of X11-based applications. This feature can increase the attack surface of an SSH connection and should not be enabled unless needed.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • AIX must turn off TCP forwarding for the SSH daemon.

    SSH TCP connection forwarding provides a mechanism to establish TCP connections proxied by the SSH server. This function can provide similar convenience to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) with the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00229

    Group
  • The AIX SSH daemon must be configured to disable empty passwords.

    When password authentication is allowed, PermitEmptyPasswords specifies whether the server allows login to accounts with empty password strings. If an account has an empty password, anyone could lo...
    Rule Medium Severity

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