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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • RHEL 9 must be a vendor-supported release.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;An operating system release is considered "supported" if the vendor continues to provide security patches for the product. Wi...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 vendor packaged system security patches and updates must be installed and up to date.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Installing software updates is a fundamental mitigation against the exploitation of publicly known vulnerabilities. If the mo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000023-GPOS-00006

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  • RHEL 9 must display the Standard Mandatory DOD Notice and Consent Banner before granting local or remote access to the system via a command line user logon.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the operating system ensures privacy and se...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000191-GPOS-00080

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  • RHEL 9 must implement the Endpoint Security for Linux Threat Prevention tool.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the use of automated mechanisms to scan for security flaws on a continuous and/or periodic basis, the operating syste...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The graphical display manager must not be the default target on RHEL 9 unless approved.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Unnecessary service packages must not be installed to decrease the attack surface of the system. Graphical display managers h...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • RHEL 9 must enable the hardware random number generator entropy gatherer service.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The most important characteristic of a random number generator is its randomness, namely its ability to deliver random number...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000269-GPOS-00103

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 systemd-journald service must be enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In the event of a system failure, RHEL 9 must preserve any information necessary to determine cause of failure and any inform...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000324-GPOS-00125

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    Group
  • The systemd Ctrl-Alt-Delete burst key sequence in RHEL 9 must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A locally logged-on user who presses Ctrl-Alt-Delete when at the console can reboot the system. If accidentally pressed, as c...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000324-GPOS-00125

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    Group
  • The x86 Ctrl-Alt-Delete key sequence must be disabled on RHEL 9.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A locally logged-on user who presses Ctrl-Alt-Delete when at the console can reboot the system. If accidentally pressed, as c...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000324-GPOS-00125

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 debug-shell systemd service must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The debug-shell requires no authentication and provides root privileges to anyone who has physical access to the machine. Whi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • RHEL 9 must require a boot loader superuser password.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DOD-ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must disable the ability of systemd to spawn an interactive boot process.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Using interactive or recovery boot, the console user could disable auditing, firewalls, or other services, weakening system s...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must require a unique superusers name upon booting into single-user and maintenance modes.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Having a nondefault grub superuser username makes password-guessing attacks less effective.&lt;/VulnDiscussion&gt;&lt;FalsePo...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file must be group-owned by root.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The "root" group is a highly privileged group. Furthermore, the group-owner of this file should not have any access privilege...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file must be owned by root.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The " /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file stores sensitive system configuration. Protection of this file is critical for system securi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • RHEL 9 must disable virtual system calls.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;System calls are special routines in the Linux kernel, which userspace applications ask to do privileged tasks. Invoking a sy...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must clear the page allocator to prevent use-after-free attacks.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Poisoning writes an arbitrary value to freed pages, so any modification or reference to that page after being freed or before...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000433-GPOS-00192

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must clear SLUB/SLAB objects to prevent use-after-free attacks.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Some adversaries launch attacks with the intent of executing code in nonexecutable regions of memory or in memory locations t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000433-GPOS-00193

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must enable mitigations against processor-based vulnerabilities.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Kernel page-table isolation is a kernel feature that mitigates the Meltdown security vulnerability and hardens the kernel aga...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must enable auditing of processes that start prior to the audit daemon.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000132-GPOS-00067

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must restrict access to the kernel message buffer.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing unauthorized information transfers mitigates the risk of information, including encrypted representations of infor...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000132-GPOS-00067

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must prevent kernel profiling by nonprivileged users.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing unauthorized information transfers mitigates the risk of information, including encrypted representations of infor...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must prevent the loading of a new kernel for later execution.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Changes to any software components can have significant effects on the overall security of the operating system. This require...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000132-GPOS-00067

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must restrict exposed kernel pointer addresses access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Exposing kernel pointers (through procfs or "seq_printf()") exposes kernel writeable structures, which may contain functions ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000312-GPOS-00123

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  • RHEL 9 must enable kernel parameters to enforce discretionary access control on hardlinks.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By enabling the fs.protected_hardlinks kernel parameter, users can no longer create soft or hard links to files they do not o...
    Rule Medium Severity

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