II - Mission Support Classified
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-OS-000183
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The operating system must disable information system functionality that provides the capability for automatic execution of code on mobile devices without user direction.
<VulnDiscussion>Mobile devices include portable storage media (e.g., USB memory sticks, external hard disk drives) and portable computing and...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000324
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The system must restrict the ability of users to assume excessive privileges to members of a defined group and prevent unauthorized users from accessing administrative tools.
<VulnDiscussion>Allowing any user to elevate their privileges can allow them excessive control of the system tools.</VulnDiscussion><...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000396
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The operating system must employ FIPS-validate or NSA-approved cryptography to implement digital signatures.
<VulnDiscussion>FIPS 140-2 is the current standard for validating cryptographic modules, and NSA Type-X (where X=1, 2, 3, 4) products are NSA...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000423
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The operating system must protect the integrity of transmitted information.
<VulnDiscussion>Ensuring the integrity of transmitted information requires the operating system take feasible measures to employ transmission...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000424
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The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to recognize changes to information during transmission unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures.
<VulnDiscussion>Ensuring that transmitted information is not altered during transmission requires the operating system take feasible measures...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000425
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The operating system must maintain the integrity of information during aggregation, packaging, and transformation in preparation for transmission.
<VulnDiscussion>Ensuring the integrity of transmitted information requires the operating system take feasible measures to employ transmission...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000423
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The operating system must protect the confidentiality of transmitted information.
<VulnDiscussion>Ensuring the confidentiality of transmitted information requires the operating system take feasible measures to employ transm...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000424
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The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information during transmission unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures.
<VulnDiscussion>Ensuring that transmitted information does not become disclosed to unauthorized entities requires the operating system take f...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000425
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The operating system must maintain the confidentiality of information during aggregation, packaging, and transformation in preparation for transmission.
<VulnDiscussion>Ensuring that transmitted information remains confidential during aggregation, packaging, and transformation requires the ope...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000404
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to protect information in storage.
<VulnDiscussion>When data is written to digital media, such as hard drives, mobile computers, external/removable hard drives, personal digita...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000404
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The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information at rest unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures.
<VulnDiscussion>When data is written to digital media, such as hard drives, mobile computers, external/removable hard drives, personal digita...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000423
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The operating system must protect the integrity of transmitted information.
<VulnDiscussion>Ensuring the integrity of transmitted information requires the operating system take feasible measures to employ transmission...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000327
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The operating system must protect the audit records resulting from non-local accesses to privileged accounts and the execution of privileged functions.
<VulnDiscussion>Protection of audit records and audit data is of critical importance. Care must be taken to ensure privileged users cannot ci...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000356
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The operating system must synchronize internal information system clocks with a server that is synchronized to one of the redundant United States Naval Observatory (USNO) time servers or a time server designated for the appropriate DoD network (NIPRNet/SIPRNet), and/or the Global Positioning System (GPS).
<VulnDiscussion>To assure the accuracy of the system clock, it must be synchronized with an authoritative time source within DoD. Many system...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000445
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The operating system must verify the correct operation of security functions in accordance with organization-defined conditions and in accordance with organization-defined frequency (if periodic verification).
<VulnDiscussion>Security functional testing involves testing the operating system for conformance to the operating system security function s...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000324
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The operating system must prevent non-privileged users from circumventing malicious code protection capabilities.
<VulnDiscussion>In order to minimize potential negative impact to the organization caused by malicious code, it is imperative that malicious ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000445
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The operating system must identify potentially security-relevant error conditions.
<VulnDiscussion>Security functional testing involves testing the operating system for conformance to the operating system security function s...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The sshd server must bind the X11 forwarding server to the loopback address.
<VulnDiscussion>As enabling X11 Forwarding on the host can permit a malicious user to secretly open another X11 connection to another remote ...Rule Medium Severity
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