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Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The AIX hosts.lpd file must not contain a + character.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Having the '+' character in the hosts.lpd (or equivalent) file allows all hosts to use local system print resources.&lt;/Vuln...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • AIX sendmail logging must not be set to less than nine in the sendmail.cf file.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • AIX run control scripts executable search paths must contain only absolute paths.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The AIX rsh daemon must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The rsh daemon permits username and passwords to be passed over the network in clear text.&lt;/VulnDiscussion&gt;&lt;FalsePos...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000074-GPOS-00042

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  • The AIX rlogind service must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The rlogin daemon permits username and passwords to be passed over the network in clear text.&lt;/VulnDiscussion&gt;&lt;False...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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  • The AIX qdaemon must be disabled if local or remote printing is not required.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • If AIX system does not act as a remote print server for other servers, the lpd daemon must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • If AIX system does not support either local or remote printing, the piobe service must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • If there are no X11 clients that require CDE on AIX, the dt service must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • If NFS is not required on AIX, the NFS daemon must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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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