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III - Administrative Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • RHEL 8 must define default permissions for logon and non-logon shells.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The umask controls the default access mode assigned to newly created files. A umask of 077 limits new files to mode 600 or le...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000326-GPOS-00126

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    Group
  • The RHEL 8 audit system must be configured to audit the execution of privileged functions and prevent all software from executing at higher privilege levels than users executing the software.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Misuse of privileged functions, either intentionally or unintentionally by authorized users, or by unauthorized external enti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • Cron logging must be implemented in RHEL 8.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Cron logging can be used to trace the successful or unsuccessful execution of cron jobs. It can also be used to spot intrusio...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022

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    Group
  • The RHEL 8 System Administrator (SA) and Information System Security Officer (ISSO) (at a minimum) must be alerted of an audit processing failure event.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022

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    Group
  • The RHEL 8 Information System Security Officer (ISSO) and System Administrator (SA) (at a minimum) must have mail aliases to be notified of an audit processing failure.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000047-GPOS-00023

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    Group
  • The RHEL 8 System must take appropriate action when an audit processing failure occurs.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000047-GPOS-00023

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    Group
  • The RHEL 8 audit system must take appropriate action when the audit storage volume is full.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is critical that when RHEL 8 is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it takes action to mitigate the fail...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • The RHEL 8 audit system must audit local events.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133

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    Group
  • RHEL 8 must label all off-loaded audit logs before sending them to the central log server.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • RHEL 8 must resolve audit information before writing to disk.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it...
    Rule Low Severity

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