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Standard System Security Profile for UnionTech OS Server 20

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • System Settings

    Contains rules that check correct system settings.
    Group
  • Installing and Maintaining Software

    The following sections contain information on security-relevant choices during the initial operating system installation process and the setup of s...
    Group
  • System and Software Integrity

    System and software integrity can be gained by installing antivirus, increasing system encryption strength with FIPS, verifying installed software,...
    Group
  • Software Integrity Checking

    Both the AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) software and the RPM package management system provide mechanisms for verifying the integr...
    Group
  • Verify Integrity with RPM

    The RPM package management system includes the ability to verify the integrity of installed packages by comparing the installed files with informat...
    Group
  • Verify File Hashes with RPM

    Without cryptographic integrity protections, system executables and files can be altered by unauthorized users without detection. The RPM package m...
    Rule High Severity
  • Verify and Correct File Permissions with RPM

    The RPM package management system can check file access permissions of installed software packages, including many that are important to system sec...
    Rule High Severity
  • System Cryptographic Policies

    Linux has the capability to centrally configure cryptographic polices. The command <code>update-crypto-policies</code> is used to set the policy ap...
    Group
  • Configure BIND to use System Crypto Policy

    Crypto Policies provide a centralized control over crypto algorithms usage of many packages. BIND is supported by crypto policy, but the BIND confi...
    Rule High Severity
  • Configure System Cryptography Policy

    To configure the system cryptography policy to use ciphers only from the <code><xccdf-1.2:sub idref="xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_value_var_system_...
    Rule High Severity
  • Configure Kerberos to use System Crypto Policy

    Crypto Policies provide a centralized control over crypto algorithms usage of many packages. Kerberos is supported by crypto policy, but it's confi...
    Rule High Severity
  • Configure Libreswan to use System Crypto Policy

    Crypto Policies provide a centralized control over crypto algorithms usage of many packages. Libreswan is supported by system crypto policy, but th...
    Rule High Severity
  • Configure OpenSSL library to use System Crypto Policy

    Crypto Policies provide a centralized control over crypto algorithms usage of many packages. OpenSSL is supported by crypto policy, but the OpenSSL...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure SSH to use System Crypto Policy

    Crypto Policies provide a centralized control over crypto algorithms usage of many packages. SSH is supported by crypto policy, but the SSH configu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Updating Software

    The <code>yum</code> command line tool is used to install and update software packages. The system also provides a graphical software update tool i...
    Group
  • Ensure gpgcheck Enabled In Main yum Configuration

    The <code>gpgcheck</code> option controls whether RPM packages' signatures are always checked prior to installation. To configure yum to check pack...
    Rule High Severity
  • Ensure Red Hat GPG Key Installed

    To ensure the system can cryptographically verify base software packages come from Red Hat (and to connect to the Red Hat Network to receive them),...
    Rule High Severity
  • Ensure Software Patches Installed



    NOTE: U.S. Defense systems are required to be patched within 30 days or sooner as local policy dictates.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • System Accounting with auditd

    The audit service provides substantial capabilities for recording system activities. By default, the service audits about SELinux AVC denials and c...
    Group
  • Configure auditd Rules for Comprehensive Auditing

    The <code>auditd</code> program can perform comprehensive monitoring of system activity. This section describes recommended configuration settings ...
    Group
  • 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

    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 th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • File Permissions and Masks

    Traditional Unix security relies heavily on file and directory permissions to prevent unauthorized users from reading or modifying files to which t...
    Group
  • Verify Permissions on Important Files and Directories

    Permissions for many files on a system must be set restrictively to ensure sensitive information is properly protected. This section discusses impo...
    Group
  • Ensure All SGID Executables Are Authorized

    The SGID (set group id) bit should be set only on files that were installed via authorized means. A straightforward means of identifying unauthoriz...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure All SUID Executables Are Authorized

    The SUID (set user id) bit should be set only on files that were installed via authorized means. A straightforward means of identifying unauthorize...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Restrict Dynamic Mounting and Unmounting of Filesystems

    Linux includes a number of facilities for the automated addition and removal of filesystems on a running system. These facilities may be necessary...
    Group
  • Disable the Automounter

    The <code>autofs</code> daemon mounts and unmounts filesystems, such as user home directories shared via NFS, on demand. In addition, autofs can be...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Services

    The best protection against vulnerable software is running less software. This section describes how to review the software which UnionTech OS Serv...
    Group
  • Base Services

    This section addresses the base services that are installed on a UnionTech OS Server 20 default installation which are not covered in other section...
    Group
  • Disable Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (abrtd)

    The Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (<code>abrtd</code>) daemon collects and reports crash data when an application crash is detected. Using a variety...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Disable ntpdate Service (ntpdate)

    The <code>ntpdate</code> service sets the local hardware clock by polling NTP servers when the system boots. It synchronizes to the NTP servers lis...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Disable Odd Job Daemon (oddjobd)

    The <code>oddjobd</code> service exists to provide an interface and access control mechanism through which specified privileged tasks can run tasks...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Disable Apache Qpid (qpidd)

    The <code>qpidd</code> service provides high speed, secure, guaranteed delivery services. It is an implementation of the Advanced Message Queuing ...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Disable Network Router Discovery Daemon (rdisc)

    The <code>rdisc</code> service implements the client side of the ICMP Internet Router Discovery Protocol (IRDP), which allows discovery of routers ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Cron and At Daemons

    The cron and at services are used to allow commands to be executed at a later time. The cron service is required by almost all systems to perform n...
    Group
  • Disable At Service (atd)

    The <code>at</code> and <code>batch</code> commands can be used to schedule tasks that are meant to be executed only once. This allows delayed exec...
    Rule Medium Severity

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