III - Administrative Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-OS-000480
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The centralized process core dump data directory must have mode 0700 or less permissive.
<VulnDiscussion>Process core dumps contain the memory in use by the process when it crashed. Any data the process was handling may be contain...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
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Kernel core dumps must be disabled unless needed.
<VulnDiscussion>Kernel core dumps may contain the full contents of system memory at the time of the crash. Kernel core dumps may consume a co...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The kernel core dump data directory must be owned by root.
<VulnDiscussion>Kernel core dumps may contain the full contents of system memory at the time of the crash. As the system memory may contain s...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
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The kernel core dump data directory must be group-owned by root.
<VulnDiscussion>Kernel core dumps may contain the full contents of system memory at the time of the crash. As the system memory may contain s...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The kernel core dump data directory must have mode 0700 or less permissive.
<VulnDiscussion>Kernel core dumps may contain the full contents of system memory at the time of the crash. As the system memory may contain s...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
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System BIOS or system controllers supporting password protection must have administrator accounts/passwords configured, and no others. (Intel)
<VulnDiscussion>A system's BIOS or system controller handles the initial startup of a system and its configuration must be protected from una...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must require authentication before allowing modification of the boot devices or menus. Secure the GRUB Menu (Intel).
<VulnDiscussion>The flexibility that GRUB provides creates a security risk if its configuration is modified by an unauthorized user. The fail...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The operating system must implement transaction recovery for transaction-based systems.
<VulnDiscussion>Recovery and reconstitution constitutes executing an operating system contingency plan comprised of activities to restore ess...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
SNMP communities, users, and passphrases must be changed from the default.
<VulnDiscussion>Whether active or not, default SNMP passwords, users, and passphrases must be changed to maintain security. If the service is...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
A file integrity baseline must be created, maintained, and reviewed at least weekly to determine if unauthorized changes have been made to important system files located in the root file system.
<VulnDiscussion>A file integrity baseline is a collection of file metadata used to evaluate the integrity of the system. A minimal baseline m...Rule Medium Severity
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