CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Benchmark for Level 2 - Workstation
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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Verify Group Who Owns passwd File
To properly set the group owner of/etc/passwd, run the command:$ sudo chgrp root /etc/passwd
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Verify Group Who Owns shadow File
To properly set the group owner of/etc/shadow, run the command:$ sudo chgrp root /etc/shadow
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Verify User Who Owns Backup group File
To properly set the owner of/etc/group-, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/group-
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Verify User Who Owns Backup gshadow File
To properly set the owner of/etc/gshadow-, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/gshadow-
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Verify User Who Owns Backup passwd File
To properly set the owner of/etc/passwd-, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/passwd-
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Verify Group Who Owns Backup shadow File
To properly set the owner of/etc/shadow-, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/shadow-
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Verify User Who Owns group File
To properly set the owner of/etc/group, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/group
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Verify User Who Owns gshadow File
To properly set the owner of/etc/gshadow, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/gshadow
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Verify User Who Owns passwd File
To properly set the owner of/etc/passwd, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/passwd
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Verify User Who Owns shadow File
To properly set the owner of/etc/shadow, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/shadow
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Verify Permissions on Backup group File
To properly set the permissions of/etc/group-, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/group-
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Verify Permissions on Backup gshadow File
To properly set the permissions of/etc/gshadow-, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0000 /etc/gshadow-
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Verify Permissions on Backup passwd File
To properly set the permissions of/etc/passwd-, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/passwd-
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Verify Permissions on Backup shadow File
To properly set the permissions of/etc/shadow-, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0000 /etc/shadow-
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Verify Permissions on group File
To properly set the permissions of/etc/group, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/group
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Verify Permissions on gshadow File
To properly set the permissions of/etc/gshadow, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0000 /etc/gshadow
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Verify Permissions on passwd File
To properly set the permissions of/etc/passwd, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/passwd
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Verify Permissions on shadow File
To properly set the permissions of/etc/shadow, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0000 /etc/shadow
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Verify File Permissions Within Some Important Directories
Some directories contain files whose confidentiality or integrity is notably important and may also be susceptible to misconfiguration over time, p...Group -
Verify that audit tools are owned by group root
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 operating system audit tools must have the proper ownership configured to protected against unauthorized access. Ve...Rule Medium Severity -
Verify that audit tools are owned by root
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 operating system audit tools must have the proper ownership configured to protected against unauthorized access. Ve...Rule Medium Severity -
Verify that audit tools Have Mode 0755 or less
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 operating system audit tools must have the proper permissions configured to protected against unauthorized access. ...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 -
Disable Mounting of cramfs
To configure the system to prevent the <code>cramfs</code> kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to the file <code>/etc/modprobe...Rule Low Severity -
Disable Mounting of freevxfs
To configure the system to prevent the <code>freevxfs</code> kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to the file <code>/etc/modpro...Rule Low Severity -
Disable Mounting of hfs
To configure the system to prevent the <code>hfs</code> kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to the file <code>/etc/modprobe.d/...Rule Low Severity -
Disable Mounting of hfsplus
To configure the system to prevent the <code>hfsplus</code> kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to the file <code>/etc/modprob...Rule Low Severity -
Disable Mounting of jffs2
To configure the system to prevent the <code>jffs2</code> kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to the file <code>/etc/modprobe....Rule Low Severity -
Disable Mounting of squashfs
To configure the system to prevent the <code>squashfs</code> kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to the file <code>/etc/modpro...Rule Low Severity -
Disable Mounting of udf
To configure the system to prevent the <code>udf</code> kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to the file <code>/etc/modprobe.d/...Rule Low Severity -
Disable Modprobe Loading of USB Storage Driver
To prevent USB storage devices from being used, configure the kernel module loading system to prevent automatic loading of the USB storage driver. ...Rule Medium Severity -
Restrict Partition Mount Options
System partitions can be mounted with certain options that limit what files on those partitions can do. These options are set in the <code>/etc/fst...Group -
Add nodev Option to /dev/shm
The <code>nodev</code> mount option can be used to prevent creation of device files in <code>/dev/shm</code>. Legitimate character and block device...Rule Medium Severity -
Add noexec Option to /dev/shm
The <code>noexec</code> mount option can be used to prevent binaries from being executed out of <code>/dev/shm</code>. It can be dangerous to allow...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nosuid Option to /dev/shm
The <code>nosuid</code> mount option can be used to prevent execution of setuid programs in <code>/dev/shm</code>. The SUID and SGID permissions s...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nodev Option to /home
The <code>nodev</code> mount option can be used to prevent device files from being created in <code>/home</code>. Legitimate character and block de...Rule Unknown Severity -
Add nosuid Option to /home
The <code>nosuid</code> mount option can be used to prevent execution of setuid programs in <code>/home</code>. The SUID and SGID permissions shoul...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nodev Option to /tmp
The <code>nodev</code> mount option can be used to prevent device files from being created in <code>/tmp</code>. Legitimate character and block dev...Rule Medium Severity -
Add noexec Option to /tmp
The <code>noexec</code> mount option can be used to prevent binaries from being executed out of <code>/tmp</code>. Add the <code>noexec</code> opti...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nosuid Option to /tmp
The <code>nosuid</code> mount option can be used to prevent execution of setuid programs in <code>/tmp</code>. The SUID and SGID permissions should...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nodev Option to /var/log/audit
The <code>nodev</code> mount option can be used to prevent device files from being created in <code>/var/log/audit</code>. Legitimate character and...Rule Medium Severity -
Add noexec Option to /var/log/audit
The <code>noexec</code> mount option can be used to prevent binaries from being executed out of <code>/var/log/audit</code>. Add the <code>noexec</...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nosuid Option to /var/log/audit
The <code>nosuid</code> mount option can be used to prevent execution of setuid programs in <code>/var/log/audit</code>. The SUID and SGID permissi...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nodev Option to /var/log
The <code>nodev</code> mount option can be used to prevent device files from being created in <code>/var/log</code>. Legitimate character and block...Rule Medium Severity -
Add noexec Option to /var/log
The <code>noexec</code> mount option can be used to prevent binaries from being executed out of <code>/var/log</code>. Add the <code>noexec</code> ...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nosuid Option to /var/log
The <code>nosuid</code> mount option can be used to prevent execution of setuid programs in <code>/var/log</code>. The SUID and SGID permissions sh...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nodev Option to /var
The <code>nodev</code> mount option can be used to prevent device files from being created in <code>/var</code>. Legitimate character and block dev...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nosuid Option to /var
The <code>nosuid</code> mount option can be used to prevent execution of setuid programs in <code>/var</code>. The SUID and SGID permissions should...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nodev Option to /var/tmp
The <code>nodev</code> mount option can be used to prevent device files from being created in <code>/var/tmp</code>. Legitimate character and block...Rule Medium Severity
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