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Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000210
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must prevent the automatic execution of mobile code in, at a minimum, office applications, browsers, email clients, mobile code run-time environments, and mobile agent systems.
<VulnDiscussion>Mobile code can cause damage to the system. It can execute without explicit action from, or notification to, a user. Preven...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000211
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must separate user functionality (including user interface services) from information system management functionality.
<VulnDiscussion>Application management functionality includes functions necessary for administration and requires privileged user access. All...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000225
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must fail to a secure state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.
<VulnDiscussion>Failure to a known safe state helps prevent systems from failing to a state that may cause loss of data or unauthorized acces...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000226
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
In the event of application failure, Mainframe Products must preserve any information necessary to determine the cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with the least disruption to mission processes.
<VulnDiscussion>Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. Fa...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000231
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.
<VulnDiscussion>Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is located on a secondary storage device (e.g., disk drive and...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000233
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must isolate security functions from nonsecurity functions.
<VulnDiscussion>An isolation boundary provides access control and protects the integrity of the hardware, software, and firmware that perform...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000234
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must be configured such that emergency accounts are never automatically removed or disabled.
<VulnDiscussion>Emergency accounts are administrator accounts which are established in response to crisis situations where the need for rapid...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000251
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must check the validity of all data inputs except those specifically identified by the organization.
<VulnDiscussion>Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into an application's data entry fields and the application ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000266
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate error messages that provide information necessary for corrective actions without revealing information that could be exploited by adversaries.
<VulnDiscussion>Any application providing too much information in error messages risks compromising the data and security of the application ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000267
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must reveal full-text detail error messages only to system programmers and/or security administrators.
<VulnDiscussion>Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000272
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must automatically update malicious code protection mechanisms.
<VulnDiscussion>Malicious software detection applications need to be constantly updated in order to identify new threats as they are discover...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000275
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe product must notify the system programmer and security administrator of failed security verification tests.
<VulnDiscussion>If personnel are not notified of failed security verification tests, they will not be able to take corrective action and the ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000276
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must update malicious code protection mechanisms whenever new releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management policy and procedures.
<VulnDiscussion>Malicious code includes viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware. Malicious code specific to mainframes may be any code tha...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000277
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must configure malicious code protection mechanisms to perform periodic scans of the information system every seven days.
<VulnDiscussion>Malicious code protection mechanisms include, but are not limited to, anti-virus and malware detection software. Malicious co...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000290
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of audit tools.
<VulnDiscussion>Protecting the integrity of the tools used for auditing purposes is a critical step to ensuring the integrity of audit data. ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000291
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators when accounts are created.
<VulnDiscussion>Once an attacker establishes access to an application, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of re-establ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000292
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators when accounts are modified.
<VulnDiscussion>When application accounts are modified, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual user...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000293
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators for account disabling actions.
<VulnDiscussion>When application accounts are disabled, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual user...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000294
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators for account removal actions.
<VulnDiscussion>When application accounts are removed, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying users or for ide...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000295
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must automatically terminate a user session after conditions, as defined in site security plan, are met or trigger events requiring session disconnect.
<VulnDiscussion>Automatic session termination addresses the termination of user-initiated logical sessions in contrast to the termination of ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000296
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Mainframe Products requiring user access authentication must provide a logoff capability for a user-initiated communication session.
<VulnDiscussion>If a user cannot explicitly end an application session, the session may remain open and be exploited by an attacker; this is ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000297
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must display an explicit logoff message to users indicating the reliable termination of authenticated communications sessions.
<VulnDiscussion>If a user cannot explicitly end an application session, the session may remain open and be exploited by an attacker; this is ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000311
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must associate types of security attributes having security attribute values as defined in site security plan with information in storage.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the association of security attributes to information, there is no basis for the application to make security related...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000313
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must associate types of security attributes having security attribute values as defined in site security plan with information in process.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the association of security attributes to information, there is no basis for the application to make security related...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000317
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must terminate shared/group account credentials when members leave the group.
<VulnDiscussion>If shared/group account credentials are not terminated when individuals leave the group, the user that left the group can sti...Rule Medium Severity
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