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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-NET-000053-ALG-000001

    Group
  • The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to set the "Max In Progress Sessions per Client IP" value to 10 or less.

    The "Max In Progress Sessions Per Client IP" setting in an APM Access Pro?le is a security con?guration that limits the number of simultaneous sessions that can be initiated from a single IP addres...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000015-ALG-000016

    Group
  • The F5 BIG-IP appliance must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to resources by explicitly configuring assigned resources with an authorization list.

    Authentication alone must not be sufficient to assign APM resources to a connecting client. Access to APM resources (e.g., Portal, VPN, Webtop, Remote Desktop, etc.,) must be granted only after a s...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000233-ALG-000115

    Group
  • When the Access Profile Type is LTM+APM and it is not using any connectivity resources (such as Network Access, Portal Access, etc.) in the VPE, the F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to enable the HTTP Only flag.

    To guard against cookie hijacking, only the BIG-IP APM controller and client must be able to view the full session ID. Setting the APM HTTP Only flag ensures that a third party will not have access...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000233-ALG-000115

    Group
  • The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to enable the "Secure" cookie flag.

    To guard against cookie hijacking, only the BIG-IP APM controller and client must be able to view the full session ID. Session cookies are set only after the SSL handshake between the BIG-IP APM sy...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000233-ALG-000115

    Group
  • The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to disable the "Persistent" cookie flag.

    For BIG-IP APM deployments with connectivity resources (such as Network Access, Portal Access, etc.), BIG-IP APM cookies cannot be set as "Persistent". This is by design since cookies are stored lo...
    Rule Low Severity

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