III - Administrative Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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SMTP service must not have the EXPN or VRFY features active on AIX systems.
The SMTP EXPN function allows an attacker to determine if an account exists on a system, providing significant assistance to a brute force attack on user accounts. EXPN may also provide additional ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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All global initialization file executable search paths must contain only absolute paths.
Failure to restrict system access to authenticated users negatively impacts operating system security.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SMTP service HELP command must not be enabled on AIX.
The HELP command should be disabled to mask version information. The version of the SMTP service software could be used by attackers to target vulnerabilities present in specific software versions.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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NIS maps must be protected through hard-to-guess domain names on AIX.
The use of hard-to-guess NIS domain names provides additional protection from unauthorized access to the NIS directory information.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The AIX systems access control program must be configured to grant or deny system access to specific hosts.
If the system's access control program is not configured with appropriate rules for allowing and denying access to system network resources, services may be accessible to unauthorized hosts.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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All AIX files and directories must have a valid group owner.
Failure to restrict system access to authenticated users negatively impacts operating system security.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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AIX control scripts library search paths must contain only absolute paths.
The library search path environment variable(s) contain a list of directories for the dynamic linker to search to find libraries. If this path includes the current working directory or other relati...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The control script lists of preloaded libraries must contain only absolute paths on AIX systems.
The library preload list environment variable contains a list of libraries for the dynamic linker to load before loading the libraries required by the binary. If this list contains paths to librari...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The global initialization file lists of preloaded libraries must contain only absolute paths on AIX.
The library preload list environment variable contains a list of libraries for the dynamic linker to load before loading the libraries required by the binary. If this list contains paths to librari...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The local initialization file library search paths must contain only absolute paths on AIX.
The library search path environment variable(s) contain a list of directories for the dynamic linker to search to find libraries. If this path includes the current working directory or other relati...Rule Medium Severity
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