ANSSI-BP-028 (high)
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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Record Events that Modify the System's Discretionary Access Controls - lsetxattr
At a minimum, the audit system should collect file permission changes for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to us...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Events that Modify the System's Discretionary Access Controls - removexattr
At a minimum, the audit system should collect file permission changes for all users and root. <br><br> If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configu...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Events that Modify the System's Discretionary Access Controls - setxattr
At a minimum, the audit system should collect file permission changes for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to us...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Events that Modify the System's Discretionary Access Controls - umount2
At a minimum, the audit system should collect file system umount2 changes. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenru...Rule Medium Severity -
Record File Deletion Events by User
At a minimum, the audit system should collect file deletion events for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use t...Group -
Ensure auditd Collects File Deletion Events by User - rename
At a minimum, the audit system should collect file deletion events for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use t...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects File Deletion Events by User - renameat
At a minimum, the audit system should collect file deletion events for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use t...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects File Deletion Events by User - rmdir
At a minimum, the audit system should collect file deletion events for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use t...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects File Deletion Events by User - unlink
At a minimum, the audit system should collect file deletion events for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use t...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects File Deletion Events by User - unlinkat
At a minimum, the audit system should collect file deletion events for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use t...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unauthorized Access Attempts Events to Files (unsuccessful)
At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. Note that the "-F arch=b32" lines should be presen...Group -
Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - creat
At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - ftruncate
At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - open
At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - openat
At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - truncate
At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Information on Kernel Modules Loading and Unloading
To capture kernel module loading and unloading events, use following lines, setting ARCH to either b32 for 32-bit system, or having two lines for b...Group -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on Kernel Module Unloading - delete_module
To capture kernel module unloading events, use following line, setting ARCH to either b32 for 32-bit system, or having two lines for both b32 and b...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on Kernel Module Loading and Unloading - finit_module
If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit rules during daemon startup (the default),...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on Kernel Module Loading - init_module
To capture kernel module loading events, use following line, setting ARCH to either b32 for 32-bit system, or having two lines for both b32 and b64...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Attempts to Alter Logon and Logout Events
The audit system already collects login information for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenr...Group -
Record Attempts to Alter Logon and Logout Events - faillock
The audit system already collects login information for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenr...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Attempts to Alter Logon and Logout Events - lastlog
The audit system already collects login information for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenr...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Information on the Use of Privileged Commands
At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root.Group -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands
The audit system should collect information about usage of privileged commands for all users. These are commands with suid or sgid bits on and they...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - kmod
At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is con...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - sudo
At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is con...Rule Medium Severity -
Records Events that Modify Date and Time Information
Arbitrary changes to the system time can be used to obfuscate nefarious activities in log files, as well as to confuse network services that are hi...Group -
Record attempts to alter time through adjtimex
If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit rules during daemon startup (the default),...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Attempts to Alter Time Through clock_settime
If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit rules during daemon startup (the default),...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Attempts to Alter Time Through stime
If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit rules during daemon startup (the default),...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Attempts to Alter the localtime File
If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit rules during daemon startup (the default),...Rule Medium Severity -
GRUB2 bootloader configuration
During the boot process, the boot loader is responsible for starting the execution of the kernel and passing options to it. The boot loader allows ...Group -
IOMMU configuration directive
On x86 architecture supporting VT-d, the IOMMU manages the access control policy between the hardware devices and some of the system critical u...Rule Unknown Severity -
Configure L1 Terminal Fault mitigations
L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) is a hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which is available in the Level 1 Data Ca...Rule High Severity -
Force kernel panic on uncorrected MCEs
A Machine Check Exception is an error generated by the CPU itdetects an error in itself, memory or I/O devices. These errors may be corrected and g...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure SMAP is not disabled during boot
The SMAP is used to prevent the supervisor mode from unintentionally reading/writing into memory pages in the user space, it is enabled by default ...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure SMEP is not disabled during boot
The SMEP is used to prevent the supervisor mode from executing user space code, it is enabled by default since Linux kernel 3.0. But it could be di...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable randomization of the page allocator
To enable randomization of the page allocator in the kernel, add the <code>page_alloc.shuffle=1</code> argument to the default GRUB 2 command line....Rule Medium Severity -
Enable Kernel Page-Table Isolation (KPTI)
To enable Kernel page-table isolation, add the argument <code>pti=on</code> to the default GRUB 2 command line for the Linux operating system. To e...Rule Low Severity -
Configure the confidence in TPM for entropy
The TPM security chip that is available in most modern systems has a hardware RNG. It is also used to feed the entropy pool, but generally not cred...Rule Low Severity -
Disable merging of slabs with similar size
The kernel may merge similar slabs together to reduce overhead and increase cache hotness of objects. Disabling merging of slabs keeps the slabs se...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure Speculative Store Bypass Mitigation
Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a common wide industry wide performance optimization known as Speculative Store Bypass (SSB). In...Rule Medium Severity -
Enforce Spectre v2 mitigation
Spectre V2 is an indirect branch poisoning attack that can lead to data leakage. An exploit for Spectre V2 tricks the indirect branch predictor int...Rule High Severity -
Non-UEFI GRUB2 bootloader configuration
Non-UEFI GRUB2 bootloader configurationGroup -
Set Boot Loader Password in grub2
The grub2 boot loader should have a superuser account and password protection enabled to protect boot-time settings. <br><br> Since plaintext passw...Rule High Severity -
UEFI GRUB2 bootloader configuration
UEFI GRUB2 bootloader configurationGroup -
Set the UEFI Boot Loader Password
The grub2 boot loader should have a superuser account and password protection enabled to protect boot-time settings. <br><br> Since plaintext passw...Rule High Severity -
Kernel Configuration
Contains rules that check the kernel configuration that was used to build it.Group -
Do not allow ACPI methods to be inserted/replaced at run time
This debug facility allows ACPI AML methods to be inserted and/or replaced without rebooting the system. This configuration is available from kerne...Rule Low Severity
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