CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Benchmark for Level 1 - Workstation
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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Ensure Mail Transfer Agent is not Listening on any non-loopback Address
Mail Transfer Agents (MTA), such as sendmail and Postfix, are used to listen for incoming mail and transfer the messages to the appropriate user or...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure SMTP For Mail Clients
This section discusses settings for Postfix in a submission-only e-mail configuration.Group -
Disable Postfix Network Listening
Edit the file <code>/etc/postfix/main.cf</code> to ensure that only the following <code>inet_interfaces</code> line appears: <pre>inet_interfaces =...Rule Medium Severity -
NFS and RPC
The Network File System is a popular distributed filesystem for the Unix environment, and is very widely deployed. This section discusses the circ...Group -
Disable All NFS Services if Possible
If there is not a reason for the system to operate as either an NFS client or an NFS server, follow all instructions in this section to disable sub...Group -
Disable Services Used Only by NFS
If NFS is not needed, disable the NFS client daemons nfslock, rpcgssd, and rpcidmapd. <br><br> All of these daemons run with elevated privileges, a...Group -
Disable rpcbind Service
The rpcbind utility maps RPC services to the ports on which they listen. RPC processes notify rpcbind when they start, registering the ports they a...Rule Low Severity -
Configure NFS Clients
The steps in this section are appropriate for systems which operate as NFS clients.Group -
Disable NFS Server Daemons
There is no need to run the NFS server daemons <code>nfs</code> and <code>rpcsvcgssd</code> except on a small number of properly secured systems de...Group -
Disable Network File System (nfs)
The Network File System (NFS) service allows remote hosts to mount and interact with shared filesystems on the local system. If the local system is...Rule Unknown Severity -
Network Time Protocol
The Network Time Protocol is used to manage the system clock over a network. Computer clocks are not very accurate, so time will drift unpredictabl...Group -
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 -
Ensure that chronyd is running under chrony user account
chrony is a daemon which implements the Network Time Protocol (NTP). It is designed to synchronize system clocks across a variety of systems and us...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 -
Uninstall rsync Package
The rsyncd service can be used to synchronize files between systems over network links. The <code>rsync</code> package can be removed with the foll...Rule Medium Severity -
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
Thexinetdpackage can be removed with the following command:$ sudo yum erase xinetd
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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
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