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III - Administrative Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000258-GPOS-00099

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  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must have directories that contain system commands group-owned by "root".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Protecting audit information also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must have system commands owned by "root" or a system account.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If Ubuntu 22.04 LTS were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implemented wit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must have system commands group-owned by "root" or a system account.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If Ubuntu 22.04 LTS were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implemented wit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS library directories must be owned by "root".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implemented...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS library directories must be group-owned by "root".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implemented...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS library files must be owned by "root".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implemented...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS library files must be group-owned by "root".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implemented...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

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    Group
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must configure the directories used by the system journal to be owned by "root".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

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  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must configure the directories used by the system journal to be group-owned by "systemd-journal".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

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    Group
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must configure the files used by the system journal to be owned by "root".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

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    Group
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must configure the files used by the system journal to be group-owned by "systemd-journal".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

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    Group
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must be configured so that the "journalctl" command is owned by "root".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

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    Group
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must be configured so that the "journalctl" command is group-owned by "root".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000256-GPOS-00097

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    Group
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must configure audit tools to be owned by "root".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Protecting audit information also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

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    Group
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must configure the "/var/log" directory to be owned by "root".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

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    Group
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must configure the "/var/log" directory to be group-owned by "syslog".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

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    Group
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must configure "/var/log/syslog" file to be owned by "syslog".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

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  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must configure the "/var/log/syslog" file to be group-owned by "adm".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000205-GPOS-00083

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  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must be configured so that the "journalctl" command is not accessible by unauthorized users.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Any operating system providing too much information in error messages risks compromising the data and security of the structu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000138-GPOS-00069

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  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must set a sticky bit on all public directories to prevent unauthorized and unintended information transferred via shared system resources.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing unauthorized information transfers mitigates the risk of information, including encrypted representations of infor...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000297-GPOS-00115

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  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must have an application firewall installed in order to control remote access methods.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Remote access services, such as those providing remote access to network devices and information systems, which lack automate...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000297-GPOS-00115

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  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must enable and run the Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Remote access services, such as those providing remote access to network devices and information systems, which lack automate...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00232

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  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must have an application firewall enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Firewalls protect computers from network attacks by blocking or limiting access to open network ports. Application firewalls ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000420-GPOS-00186

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  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must configure the Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw) to rate-limit impacted network interfaces.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Denial of service (DoS) is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organizat...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000096-GPOS-00050

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  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must be configured to prohibit or restrict the use of functions, ports, protocols, and/or services, as defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embeddi...
    Rule Medium Severity

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