II - Mission Support Sensitive
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000131
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must have the capability to prevent the installation of patches, service packs, or application components without verification the software component has been digitally signed using a certificate that is recognized and approved by the organization.
<VulnDiscussion>Changes to any software components can have significant effects on the overall security of the application. Verifying softwar...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000133
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The applications must limit privileges to change the software resident within software libraries.
<VulnDiscussion>If the application were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implemented with...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
An application vulnerability assessment must be conducted.
<VulnDiscussion>An application vulnerability assessment is a test conducted in order to identify weaknesses and security vulnerabilities that...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000384
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must prevent program execution in accordance with organization-defined policies regarding software program usage and restrictions, and/or rules authorizing the terms and conditions of software program usage.
<VulnDiscussion>Control of application execution is a mechanism used to prevent execution of unauthorized applications in order to follow the...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000386
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must employ a deny-all, permit-by-exception (whitelist) policy to allow the execution of authorized software programs.
<VulnDiscussion>Utilizing a whitelist provides a configuration management method for allowing the execution of only authorized software. Usin...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must be configured to disable non-essential capabilities.
<VulnDiscussion>It is detrimental for applications to provide, or install by default, functionality exceeding requirements or mission objecti...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000142
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must be configured to use only functions, ports, and protocols permitted to it in the PPSM CAL.
<VulnDiscussion>In order to prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e....Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000389
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must require users to reauthenticate when organization-defined circumstances or situations require reauthentication.
<VulnDiscussion>Without reauthentication, users may access resources or perform tasks for which they do not have authorization. When applica...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000390
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must require devices to reauthenticate when organization-defined circumstances or situations requiring reauthentication.
<VulnDiscussion>Without reauthenticating devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced; thereby facilitating malicious activity....Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000148
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).
<VulnDiscussion>To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to pre...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000149
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must use multifactor (Alt. Token) authentication for network access to privileged accounts.
<VulnDiscussion>Multifactor authentication requires using two or more factors to achieve authentication and access. Factors include: (i) som...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000391
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must accept Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials.
<VulnDiscussion>The use of PIV credentials facilitates standardization and reduces the risk of unauthorized access. DoD has mandated the use...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000392
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must electronically verify Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials.
<VulnDiscussion>The use of PIV credentials facilitates standardization and reduces the risk of unauthorized access. DoD has mandated the use...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000150
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must use multifactor (e.g., CAC, Alt. Token) authentication for network access to non-privileged accounts.
<VulnDiscussion>To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, non-privileged users must utilize multifactor authentication to ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000151
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must use multifactor (Alt. Token) authentication for local access to privileged accounts.
<VulnDiscussion>Multifactor authentication (MFA) requires using two or more factors to achieve authentication and access. Factors include: (...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000152
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must use multifactor (e.g., CAC, Alt. Token) authentication for local access to nonprivileged accounts.
<VulnDiscussion>To assure accountability, prevent unauthenticated access, and prevent misuse of the system, privileged users must utilize mul...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000153
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must ensure users are authenticated with an individual authenticator prior to using a group authenticator.
<VulnDiscussion>To ensure individual accountability and prevent unauthorized access, application users must be individually identified and au...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000156
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts.
<VulnDiscussion>A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the application. Authentication sessions between the authen...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000157
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to nonprivileged accounts.
<VulnDiscussion>A replay attack is a man-in-the-middle style attack which allows an attacker to repeat or alter a valid data transmission tha...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000158
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must utilize mutual authentication when endpoint device non-repudiation protections are required by DoD policy or by the data owner.
<VulnDiscussion>Without identifying devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. Wit...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000394
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must authenticate all network connected endpoint devices before establishing any connection.
<VulnDiscussion>Without authenticating devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000395
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Service-Oriented Applications handling non-releasable data must authenticate endpoint devices via mutual SSL/TLS.
<VulnDiscussion>Without identifying devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. One...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000163
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must disable device identifiers after 35 days of inactivity unless a cryptographic certificate is used for authentication.
<VulnDiscussion>Device identifiers are used to identify hardware devices that interact with the application much like a user account is used ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000164
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.
<VulnDiscussion>The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is comprom...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000166
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The application must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one uppercase character be used.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of passwords for application authentication is intended only for limited situations and should not be used as a replaceme...Rule Medium Severity
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