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III - Administrative Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000106

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  • The operating system must use multifactor authentication for network access to non-privileged accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, non-privileged users must utilize multifactor authentication to ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000107

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  • The operating system must use multifactor authentication for local access to privileged accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, privileged users must utilize multifactor authentication to prev...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000108

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  • The operating system must use multifactor authentication for local access to non-privileged accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To assure accountability, prevent unauthenticated access, and prevent misuse of the system, non-privileged users must utilize...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000109

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  • The operating system must require individuals to be authenticated with an individual authenticator prior to using a group authenticator.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To assure individual accountability and prevent unauthorized access, organizational users must be individually identified and...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000112

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    Group
  • The operating system must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the operating system. Authentication sessions between the a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000113

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  • The operating system must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to non-privileged accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the operating system. Authentication sessions between the a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000114

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  • The operating system must uniquely identify peripherals before establishing a connection.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without identifying devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. Per...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000118

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  • The operating system must disable account identifiers (individuals, groups, roles, and devices) after 35 days of inactivity.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Inactive identifiers pose a risk to systems and applications because attackers may exploit an inactive identifier and potenti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000120

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    Group
  • The operating system must use mechanisms meeting the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for authentication to a cryptographic module.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Unapproved mechanisms that are used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not verified and therefore cannot be r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000121

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  • The operating system must uniquely identify and must authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Lack of authentication and identification enables non-organizational users to gain access to the application or possibly othe...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000122

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    Group
  • The operating system must provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ability to generate on-demand reports, including after the audit data has been subjected to audit reduction, greatly faci...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000123

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  • The information system must automatically remove or disable emergency accounts after the crisis is resolved or 72 hours.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Emergency accounts are privileged accounts that are established in response to crisis situations where the need for rapid acc...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000125

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  • The operating system must employ strong authenticators in the establishment of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If maintenance tools are used by unauthorized personnel, they may accidentally or intentionally damage or compromise the syst...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000126

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    Group
  • The operating system must terminate all sessions and network connections related to nonlocal maintenance when nonlocal maintenance is completed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt; If a maintenance session or connection remains open after maintenance is completed, it may be hijacked by an attacker and us...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000132

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    Group
  • The operating system must separate user functionality (including user interface services) from operating system management functionality.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Operating system management functionality includes functions necessary for administration and requires privileged user access...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000134

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  • The operating system must isolate security functions from nonsecurity functions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;An isolation boundary provides access control and protects the integrity of the hardware, software, and firmware that perform...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000138

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  • Operating systems must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing unauthorized information transfers mitigates the risk of information, including encrypted representations of infor...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000142

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  • The operating system must manage excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organization either cannot ac...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000163

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  • The operating system must terminate all network connections associated with a communications session at the end of the session, or as follows: for in-band management sessions (privileged sessions), the session must be terminated after 10 minutes of inactivity; and for user sessions (non-privileged session), the session must be terminated after 15 minutes of inactivity, except to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take c...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000184

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  • The operating system must fail to a secure state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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-OS-000185

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  • The operating system must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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-OS-000191

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  • The operating system must employ automated mechanisms to determine the state of system components with regard to flaw remediation using the following frequency: continuously, 30 days, and annually, for external scans by Computer Network Defense Service Provider (CNDSP).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the use of automated mechanisms to scan for security flaws on a continuous and/or periodic basis, the operating syste...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000205

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  • The operating system must generate error messages that provide information necessary for corrective actions without revealing information that could be exploited by adversaries.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt; Any operating system providing too much information in error messages risks compromising the data and security of the struct...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000206

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  • The operating system must reveal error messages only to authorized users.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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-OS-000228

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  • Any publically accessible connection to the operating system must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the publicly accessible operating system en...
    Rule Medium Severity

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