ANSSI-BP-028 (enhanced)
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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The Chrony package is installed
System time should be synchronized between all systems in an environment. This is typically done by establishing an authoritative time server or se...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable the NTP Daemon
Run the following command to determine the current status of the <code>chronyd</code> service: <pre>$ sudo systemctl is-active chronyd</pre> If t...Rule Medium Severity -
A remote time server for Chrony is configured
<code>Chrony</code> is a daemon which implements the Network Time Protocol (NTP). It is designed to synchronize system clocks across a variety of s...Rule Medium Severity -
Obsolete Services
This section discusses a number of network-visible services which have historically caused problems for system security, and for which disabling or...Group -
Xinetd
The <code>xinetd</code> service acts as a dedicated listener for some network services (mostly, obsolete ones) and can be used to provide access co...Group -
Uninstall xinetd Package
Thexinetd
package can be removed with the following command:$ sudo yum erase xinetd
Rule Low Severity -
NIS
The Network Information Service (NIS), also known as 'Yellow Pages' (YP), and its successor NIS+ have been made obsolete by Kerberos, LDAP, and oth...Group -
Remove NIS Client
The Network Information Service (NIS), formerly known as Yellow Pages, is a client-server directory service protocol used to distribute system conf...Rule Unknown Severity -
Uninstall ypserv Package
Theypserv
package can be removed with the following command:$ sudo yum erase ypserv
Rule High Severity -
Rlogin, Rsh, and Rexec
The Berkeley r-commands are legacy services which allow cleartext remote access and have an insecure trust model.Group -
Uninstall rsh-server Package
Thersh-server
package can be removed with the following command:$ sudo yum erase rsh-server
Rule High Severity -
Uninstall rsh Package
Thersh
package contains the client commands for the rsh servicesRule Unknown Severity -
Chat/Messaging Services
The talk software makes it possible for users to send and receive messages across systems through a terminal session.Group -
Uninstall talk-server Package
Thetalk-server
package can be removed with the following command:$ sudo yum erase talk-server
Rule Medium Severity -
Uninstall talk Package
The <code>talk</code> package contains the client program for the Internet talk protocol, which allows the user to chat with other users on differe...Rule Medium Severity -
Telnet
The telnet protocol does not provide confidentiality or integrity for information transmitted on the network. This includes authentication informat...Group -
Uninstall telnet-server Package
Thetelnet-server
package can be removed with the following command:$ sudo yum erase telnet-server
Rule High Severity -
Remove telnet Clients
The telnet client allows users to start connections to other systems via the telnet protocol.Rule Low Severity -
TFTP Server
TFTP is a lightweight version of the FTP protocol which has traditionally been used to configure networking equipment. However, TFTP provides littl...Group -
Uninstall tftp-server Package
Thetftp-server
package can be removed with the following command:$ sudo yum erase tftp-server
Rule High Severity
Node 2
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