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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The /etc/shells file must exist on AIX systems.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The shells file (or equivalent) lists approved default shells. It helps provide layered defense to the security approach by e...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • AIX public directories must be the only world-writable directories and world-writable files must be located only in public directories.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;World-writable files and directories make it easy for a malicious user to place potentially compromising files on the system....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • AIX must be configured to only boot from the system boot device.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ability to boot from removable media is the same as being able to boot into single user or maintenance mode without a pas...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • AIX must not use removable media as the boot loader.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Malicious users with removable boot media can gain access to a system configured to use removable media as the boot loader.&l...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • If the AIX host is running an SMTP service, the SMTP greeting must not provide version information.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The version of the SMTP service can be used by attackers to plan an attack based on vulnerabilities present in the specific v...
    Rule Low Severity

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