RHV hardening based on STIG for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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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 -
Configure NFS Clients
The steps in this section are appropriate for systems which operate as NFS clients.Group -
Mount Remote Filesystems with Restrictive Options
Edit the file <code>/etc/fstab</code>. For each filesystem whose type (column 3) is <code>nfs</code> or <code>nfs4</code>, add the text <code>,node...Group -
Mount Remote Filesystems with nodev
Add thenodev
option to the fourth column of/etc/fstab
for the line which controls mounting of any NFS mounts.Rule Medium Severity -
Mount Remote Filesystems with noexec
Add thenoexec
option to the fourth column of/etc/fstab
for the line which controls mounting of any NFS mounts.Rule Medium Severity -
Mount Remote Filesystems with nosuid
Add thenosuid
option to the fourth column of/etc/fstab
for the line which controls mounting of any NFS mounts.Rule Medium Severity -
Configure NFS Servers
The steps in this section are appropriate for systems which operate as NFS servers.Group -
Use Kerberos Security on All Exports
Using Kerberos on all exported mounts prevents a malicious client or user from impersonating a system user. To cryptography authenticate users to t...Rule Medium 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 -
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 -
Configure Time Service Maxpoll Interval
The <code>maxpoll</code> should be configured to <xccdf-1.2:sub idref="xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_value_var_time_service_set_maxpoll" use="legacy...Rule Medium Severity -
Specify Additional Remote NTP Servers
Depending on specific functional requirements of a concrete production environment, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 system can be configured to util...Rule Medium Severity -
Specify a Remote NTP Server
Depending on specific functional requirements of a concrete production environment, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 system can be configured to util...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
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Disable xinetd Service
Thexinetd
service can be disabled with the following command:$ sudo systemctl mask --now xinetd.service
Rule Medium 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
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