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III - Administrative Public

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000223

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  • Applications must use system-generated session identifiers that protect against session fixation.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Session fixation allows an attacker to hijack a valid user’s application session. The attack focuses on the manner in which a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000223

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  • Applications must validate session identifiers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Many web development frameworks such as PHP, .NET, and ASP include their own mechanisms for session management. Whenever poss...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000223

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  • Applications must not use URL embedded session IDs.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Many web development frameworks such as PHP, .NET, and ASP include their own mechanisms for session management. Whenever poss...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000223

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  • The application must not re-use or recycle session IDs.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Many web development frameworks such as PHP, .NET, and ASP include their own mechanisms for session management. Whenever poss...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000224

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    Group
  • The application must use the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2-validated cryptographic modules and random number generator if the application implements encryption, key exchange, digital signature, and hash functionality.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Sequentially generated session IDs can be easily guessed by an attacker. Employing the concept of randomness in the generatio...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000427

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  • The application must only allow the use of DoD-approved certificate authorities for verification of the establishment of protected sessions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Untrusted Certificate Authorities (CA) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that se...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000225

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  • The application must fail to a secure state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failure to a known safe state helps prevent systems from failing to a state that may cause loss of data or unauthorized acces...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000226

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  • In the event of a system failure, applications must preserve any information necessary to determine cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to mission processes.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. Fa...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000231

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  • The application must protect the confidentiality and integrity of stored information when required by DoD policy or the information owner.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is located on a secondary storage device (e.g., disk drive and...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000428

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  • The application must implement approved cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized modification of organization-defined information at rest on organization-defined information system components.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Applications handling data requiring "data at rest" protections must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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