III - Administrative Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000175
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Digital signatures assigned to strongly named assemblies must be verified.
<VulnDiscussion>A strong name consists of the assembly's identity, simple text name, version number, and culture information (if provided)—pl...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000175
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The Trust Providers Software Publishing State must be set to 0x23C00.
<VulnDiscussion>Microsoft Windows operating systems provide a feature called Authenticode. Authenticode technology and its underlying code s...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000175
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Developer certificates used with the .NET Publisher Membership Condition must be approved by the ISSO.
<VulnDiscussion>A .Net assembly will satisfy the Publisher Membership Condition if it is signed with a software publisher’s Authenticode X.50...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000176
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Encryption keys used for the .NET Strong Name Membership Condition must be protected.
<VulnDiscussion>The Strong Name Membership condition requires that member assemblies be defined with Strong Names. A strong name consists of ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000120
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
CAS and policy configuration files must be backed up.
<VulnDiscussion>A successful disaster recovery plan requires that CAS policy and CAS policy configuration files are identified and included i...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000219
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Remoting Services HTTP channels must utilize authentication and encryption.
<VulnDiscussion>Note: Microsoft recommends using the Windows Communication Framework (WCF) rather than using .Net remoting. New development p...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
.Net Framework versions installed on the system must be supported.
<VulnDiscussion>Unsupported software introduces risks and violates DoD policy. Applications utilizing unsupported versions of .NET introduce...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000635
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The .NET CLR must be configured to use FIPS approved encryption modules.
<VulnDiscussion>FIPS encryption is configured via .NET configuration files. There are numerous configuration files that affect different asp...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000175
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
.NET must be configured to validate strong names on full-trust assemblies.
<VulnDiscussion>The "bypassTrustedAppStrongNames" setting specifies whether the bypass feature that avoids validating strong names for full-t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
.Net applications that invoke NetFx40_LegacySecurityPolicy must apply previous versions of .NET STIG guidance.
<VulnDiscussion>CAS policy is .NET runtime version-specific. In .NET Framework version 4, CAS policy is disabled by default however; it can ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000431
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Trust must be established prior to enabling the loading of remote code in .Net 4.
<VulnDiscussion>In the .NET Framework version 3.5 and earlier versions, if an application assembly loaded code/objects from a remote location...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
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.NET default proxy settings must be reviewed and approved.
<VulnDiscussion>The .Net framework can be configured to utilize a different proxy or altogether bypass the default proxy settings in the clie...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-APP-000095
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Event tracing for Windows (ETW) for Common Language Runtime events must be enabled.
<VulnDiscussion>Event tracing captures information about applications utilizing the .NET CLR and the .NET CLR itself. This includes security ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000431
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Software utilizing .Net 4.0 must be identified and relevant access controls configured.
<VulnDiscussion>With the advent of .Net 4.0, the .Net framework no longer directly configures or enforces security policy for .Net applicatio...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000219
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Remoting Services TCP channels must utilize authentication and encryption.
<VulnDiscussion>Note: Microsoft recommends using the Windows Communication Framework (WCF) rather than .Net remoting. New development project...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000383
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Disable TLS RC4 cipher in .Net
<VulnDiscussion>Use of the RC4 cipher in TLS could allow an attacker to perform man-in-the-middle attacks and recover plaintext from encrypte...Rule Medium Severity
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