PCI-DSS v4.0 Control Baseline for Alibaba Cloud Linux 2
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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Verify Owner on cron.daily
To properly set the owner of/etc/cron.daily
, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/cron.daily
Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Owner on cron.hourly
To properly set the owner of/etc/cron.hourly
, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/cron.hourly
Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Owner on cron.monthly
To properly set the owner of/etc/cron.monthly
, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/cron.monthly
Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Owner on cron.weekly
To properly set the owner of/etc/cron.weekly
, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/cron.weekly
Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Owner on crontab
To properly set the owner of/etc/crontab
, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/crontab
Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Permissions on cron.d
To properly set the permissions of/etc/cron.d
, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0700 /etc/cron.d
Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Permissions on cron.daily
To properly set the permissions of/etc/cron.daily
, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0700 /etc/cron.daily
Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Permissions on cron.hourly
To properly set the permissions of/etc/cron.hourly
, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0700 /etc/cron.hourly
Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Permissions on cron.monthly
To properly set the permissions of/etc/cron.monthly
, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0700 /etc/cron.monthly
Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Permissions on cron.weekly
To properly set the permissions of/etc/cron.weekly
, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0700 /etc/cron.weekly
Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Permissions on crontab
To properly set the permissions of/etc/crontab
, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0600 /etc/crontab
Rule Medium Severity -
Restrict at and cron to Authorized Users if Necessary
The <code>/etc/cron.allow</code> and <code>/etc/at.allow</code> files contain lists of users who are allowed to use <code>cron</code> and at to del...Group -
Ensure that /etc/at.deny does not exist
The file/etc/at.deny
should not exist. Use/etc/at.allow
instead.Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that /etc/cron.deny does not exist
The file/etc/cron.deny
should not exist. Use/etc/cron.allow
instead.Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Group Who Owns /etc/at.allow file
If <code>/etc/at.allow</code> exists, it must be group-owned by <code>root</code>. To properly set the group owner of <code>/etc/at.allow</code>, ...Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Group Who Owns /etc/cron.allow file
If <code>/etc/cron.allow</code> exists, it must be group-owned by <code>root</code>. To properly set the group owner of <code>/etc/cron.allow</cod...Rule Medium Severity -
Verify User Who Owns /etc/at.allow file
If <code>/etc/at.allow</code> exists, it must be owned by <code>root</code>. To properly set the owner of <code>/etc/at.allow</code>, run the comm...Rule Medium Severity -
Verify User Who Owns /etc/cron.allow file
If <code>/etc/cron.allow</code> exists, it must be owned by <code>root</code>. To properly set the owner of <code>/etc/cron.allow</code>, run the ...Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Permissions on /etc/at.allow file
If <code>/etc/at.allow</code> exists, it must have permissions <code>0640</code> or more restrictive. To properly set the permissions of <code>/e...Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Permissions on /etc/cron.allow file
If <code>/etc/cron.allow</code> exists, it must have permissions <code>0640</code> or more restrictive. To properly set the permissions of <code>...Rule Medium Severity -
Mail Server Software
Mail servers are used to send and receive email over the network. Mail is a very common service, and Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) are obvious target...Group -
Configure SMTP For Mail Clients
This section discusses settings for Postfix in a submission-only e-mail configuration.Group -
Disable Postfix Network Listening
Edit the file <code>/etc/postfix/main.cf</code> to ensure that only the following <code>inet_interfaces</code> line appears: <pre>inet_interfaces =...Rule Medium Severity -
NFS and RPC
The Network File System is a popular distributed filesystem for the Unix environment, and is very widely deployed. This section discusses the circ...Group -
Disable All NFS Services if Possible
If there is not a reason for the system to operate as either an NFS client or an NFS server, follow all instructions in this section to disable sub...Group -
Disable Services Used Only by NFS
If NFS is not needed, disable the NFS client daemons nfslock, rpcgssd, and rpcidmapd. <br><br> All of these daemons run with elevated privileges, a...Group -
Disable rpcbind Service
The rpcbind utility maps RPC services to the ports on which they listen. RPC processes notify rpcbind when they start, registering the ports they a...Rule Low Severity -
Network Time Protocol
The Network Time Protocol is used to manage the system clock over a network. Computer clocks are not very accurate, so time will drift unpredictabl...Group -
The Chrony package is installed
System time should be synchronized between all systems in an environment. This is typically done by establishing an authoritative time server or se...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable the NTP Daemon
Run the following command to determine the current status of the <code>chronyd</code> service: <pre>$ sudo systemctl is-active chronyd</pre> If t...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable the NTP Daemon
Thentpd
service can be enabled with the following command:$ sudo systemctl enable ntpd.service
Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that chronyd is running under chrony user account
chrony is a daemon which implements the Network Time Protocol (NTP). It is designed to synchronize system clocks across a variety of systems and us...Rule Medium Severity -
A remote time server for Chrony is configured
<code>Chrony</code> is a daemon which implements the Network Time Protocol (NTP). It is designed to synchronize system clocks across a variety of s...Rule Medium Severity -
Specify a Remote NTP Server
To specify a remote NTP server for time synchronization, edit the file <code>/etc/ntp.conf</code>. Add or correct the following lines, substituting...Rule Medium Severity -
Obsolete Services
This section discusses a number of network-visible services which have historically caused problems for system security, and for which disabling or...Group -
Ensure rsyncd service is disabled
Thersyncd
service can be disabled with the following command:$ sudo systemctl mask --now rsyncd.service
Rule Medium Severity -
NIS
The Network Information Service (NIS), also known as 'Yellow Pages' (YP), and its successor NIS+ have been made obsolete by Kerberos, LDAP, and oth...Group -
Remove NIS Client
The Network Information Service (NIS), formerly known as Yellow Pages, is a client-server directory service protocol used to distribute system conf...Rule Unknown Severity -
Rlogin, Rsh, and Rexec
The Berkeley r-commands are legacy services which allow cleartext remote access and have an insecure trust model.Group -
Uninstall rsh Package
Thersh
package contains the client commands for the rsh servicesRule Unknown Severity -
Chat/Messaging Services
The talk software makes it possible for users to send and receive messages across systems through a terminal session.Group -
Uninstall talk-server Package
Thetalk-server
package can be removed with the following command:$ sudo yum erase talk-server
Rule Medium Severity -
Uninstall talk Package
The <code>talk</code> package contains the client program for the Internet talk protocol, which allows the user to chat with other users on differe...Rule Medium Severity -
Telnet
The telnet protocol does not provide confidentiality or integrity for information transmitted on the network. This includes authentication informat...Group -
Remove telnet Clients
The telnet client allows users to start connections to other systems via the telnet protocol.Rule Low Severity -
SSH Server
The SSH protocol is recommended for remote login and remote file transfer. SSH provides confidentiality and integrity for data exchanged between tw...Group -
Verify Permissions on SSH Server config file
To properly set the permissions of/etc/ssh/sshd_config
, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0600 /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Permissions on SSH Server Private *_key Key Files
SSH server private keys - files that match the <code>/etc/ssh/*_key</code> glob, have to have restricted permissions. If those files are owned by t...Rule Medium Severity -
Verify Permissions on SSH Server Public *.pub Key Files
To properly set the permissions of/etc/ssh/*.pub
, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/ssh/*.pub
Rule Medium Severity -
Configure OpenSSH Server if Necessary
If the system needs to act as an SSH server, then certain changes should be made to the OpenSSH daemon configuration file <code>/etc/ssh/sshd_confi...Group
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