I - Mission Critical Classified
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-NET-000234
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The ALG must generate unique session identifiers using a FIPS 140-2 approved random number generator.
<VulnDiscussion>Sequentially generated session IDs can be easily guessed by an attacker. Employing the concept of randomness in the generatio...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000235
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The ALG must fail to a secure state upon failure of initialization, shutdown, or abort actions.
<VulnDiscussion>Failure to a known safe state helps prevent systems from failing to a state that may cause loss of data or unauthorized acces...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000236
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In the event of a system failure of the ALG function, the ALG must save diagnostic information, log system messages, and load the most current security policies, rules, and signatures when restarted.
<VulnDiscussion>Failure in a secure state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission needs of the organization. Failure to...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000246
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The ALG providing content filtering must update malicious code protection mechanisms and signature definitions whenever new releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management policy.
<VulnDiscussion>Malicious code protection mechanisms include, but are not limited to, antivirus and malware detection software. To minimize a...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000248
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The ALG providing content filtering must be configured to perform real-time scans of files from external sources at network entry/exit points as they are downloaded and prior to being opened or executed.
<VulnDiscussion>Malicious code includes viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware. The code provides the ability for a malicious user to rea...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000249
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The ALG providing content filtering must block malicious code upon detection.
<VulnDiscussion>Taking an appropriate action based on local organizational incident handling procedures minimizes the impact of this code on ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000249
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The ALG providing content filtering must delete or quarantine malicious code in response to malicious code detection.
<VulnDiscussion>Taking an appropriate action based on local organizational incident handling procedures minimizes the impact of this code on ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000249
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The ALG providing content filtering must send an immediate (within seconds) alert to the system administrator, at a minimum, in response to malicious code detection.
<VulnDiscussion>Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability; then the ability to perf...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000251
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The ALG providing content filtering must update malicious code protection mechanisms and signature definitions whenever new releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management procedures.
<VulnDiscussion>The malicious software detection functionality on network elements needs to be constantly updated in order to identify new th...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000273
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The ALG must generate error messages that provide the information necessary for corrective actions without revealing information that could be exploited by adversaries.
<VulnDiscussion>Providing too much information in error messages risks compromising the data and security of the application and system. Org...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000280
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The ALG that is part of a CDS must enforce information flow control based on organization-defined metadata.
<VulnDiscussion>Enforcing allowed information flows based on metadata enables simpler and more effective flow control. Metadata is informatio...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000280
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The ALG that is part of a CDS must block the transfer of data with malformed security attribute metadata structures.
<VulnDiscussion>Enforcing allowed information flows based on metadata enables simpler and more effective flow control. Metadata is informatio...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000282
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The ALG that is part of a CDS must decompose information into organization-defined, policy-relevant subcomponents for submission to policy enforcement mechanisms before transferring information between different security domains.
<VulnDiscussion>Policy enforcement mechanisms apply filtering, inspection, and/or sanitization rules to the policy-relevant subcomponents of ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000283
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The ALG that is part of a CDS, when transferring information between different security domains, must implement organization-defined security policy filters requiring fully enumerated formats that restrict data structure and content.
<VulnDiscussion>Data structure and content restrictions reduce the range of potential malicious and/or unsanctioned content in cross-domain t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000284
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The ALG that is part of a CDS, when transferring information between different security domains, must examine the information for the presence of organization-defined unsanctioned information.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the capability to examine information, there is no means to determine the presence of information not authorized for ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000285
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The ALG that is part of a CDS must prohibit the transfer of unsanctioned information in accordance with the security policy when transferring information between different security domains.
<VulnDiscussion>The ability to prohibit information transfer is fundamentally necessary to prevent unintended and unauthorized data flows. Fa...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000288
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The ALG providing content filtering must block or restrict detected prohibited mobile code.
<VulnDiscussion>Mobile code is defined as software modules obtained from remote systems, transferred across a network, and then downloaded an...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000289
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The ALG providing content filtering must prevent the download of prohibited mobile code.
<VulnDiscussion>Mobile code is defined as software modules obtained from remote systems, transferred across a network, and then downloaded an...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000313
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The ALG providing intermediary services for remote access communications traffic must control remote access methods.
<VulnDiscussion>Remote access devices, such as those providing remote access to network devices and information systems, which lack automated...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000314
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The ALG providing intermediary services for remote access communications traffic must provide the capability to immediately disconnect or disable remote access to the information system.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the ability to immediately disconnect or disable remote access, an attack or other compromise taking progress would n...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000318
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To protect against data mining, the ALG providing content filtering must prevent code injection attacks from being launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000318
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To protect against data mining, the ALG providing content filtering must prevent code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000318
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To protect against data mining, the ALG providing content filtering must prevent SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000319
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To protect against data mining, the ALG providing content filtering must detect code injection attacks from being launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000319
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To protect against data mining, the ALG providing content filtering must detect SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields.
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure t...Rule Medium Severity
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