I - Mission Critical Sensitive
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The AIX hosts.lpd file must not contain a + character.
<VulnDiscussion>Having the '+' character in the hosts.lpd (or equivalent) file allows all hosts to use local system print resources.</Vuln...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AIX sendmail logging must not be set to less than nine in the sendmail.cf file.
<VulnDiscussion>If Sendmail is not configured to log at level 9, system logs may not contain the information necessary for tracking unauthori...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AIX run control scripts executable search paths must contain only absolute paths.
<VulnDiscussion>The executable search path (typically the PATH environment variable) contains a list of directories for the shell to search t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000074-GPOS-00042
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The AIX rsh daemon must be disabled.
<VulnDiscussion>The rsh daemon permits username and passwords to be passed over the network in clear text.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePos...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000074-GPOS-00042
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The AIX rlogind service must be disabled.
<VulnDiscussion>The rlogin daemon permits username and passwords to be passed over the network in clear text.</VulnDiscussion><False...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The AIX qdaemon must be disabled if local or remote printing is not required.
<VulnDiscussion>The qdaemon program is the printing scheduling daemon that manages the submission of print jobs to the piobe service. To pre...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If AIX system does not act as a remote print server for other servers, the lpd daemon must be disabled.
<VulnDiscussion>The lpd daemon accepts remote print jobs from other systems. To prevent remote attacks this daemon should not be enabled unl...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If AIX system does not support either local or remote printing, the piobe service must be disabled.
<VulnDiscussion>The piobe daemon is the I/O back end for the printing process, handling the job scheduling and spooling. To prevent remote a...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If there are no X11 clients that require CDE on AIX, the dt service must be disabled.
<VulnDiscussion>This entry executes the CDE startup script which starts the AIX Common Desktop Environment. To prevent attacks this daemon s...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If NFS is not required on AIX, the NFS daemon must be disabled.
<VulnDiscussion>The rcnfs entry starts the NFS daemons during system boot. NFS is a service with numerous historical vulnerabilities and sho...Rule Medium Severity
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