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I - Mission Critical Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000516

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    Group
  • The container platform must provide the configuration for organization-identified individuals or roles to change the auditing to be performed on all components, based on all selectable event criteria within organization-defined time thresholds.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Auditing requirements may change per organization or situation within and organization. With the container platform allowing ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000357

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    Group
  • The container platform must allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In order to ensure applications have a sufficient storage capacity in which to write the audit logs, applications need to be ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000358

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    Group
  • Audit records must be stored at a secondary location.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Auditable events are used in the investigation of incidents and must be protected from being deleted or altered. Often, event...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000359

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    Group
  • The container platform must provide an immediate warning to the SA and ISSO (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of repository maximum audit record storage capacity.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If security personnel are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75 percent, they are unable to pl...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000360

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    Group
  • The container platform must provide an immediate real-time alert to the SA and ISSO, at a minimum, of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000374

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    Group
  • All audit records must use UTC or GMT time stamps.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The container platform and its components must generate audit records using either Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenw...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000375

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    Group
  • The container platform must record time stamps for audit records that meet a granularity of one second for a minimum degree of precision.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To properly investigate an event, it is important to have enough granularity within the time stamps to determine the chronolo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000378

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    Group
  • The container platform must prohibit the installation of patches and updates without explicit privileged status.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Controlling access to those users and roles responsible for patching and updating the container platform reduces the risk of ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000378

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    Group
  • The container platform runtime must prohibit the instantiation of container images without explicit privileged status.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Controlling access to those users and roles responsible for container image instantiation reduces the risk of untested or pot...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000378

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    Group
  • The container platform registry must prohibit installation or modification of container images without explicit privileged status.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Controlling access to those users and roles that perform container platform registry functions reduces the risk of untested o...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000380

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The container platform must enforce access restrictions for container platform configuration changes.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Configuration changes cause the container platform to change the way it operates. These changes can be used to improve the sy...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000381

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The container platform must enforce access restrictions and support auditing of the enforcement actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Auditing the enforcement of access restrictions against changes to the container platform helps identify attacks and provides...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000383

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    Group
  • All non-essential, unnecessary, and unsecure DoD ports, protocols, and services must be disabled in the container platform.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To properly offer services to the user and to orchestrate containers, the container platform may offer services that use port...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000384

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The container platform must prevent component 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.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The container platform may offer components such as DNS services, firewall services, router services, or web services that ar...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000386

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    Group
  • The container platform registry must employ a deny-all, permit-by-exception (whitelist) policy to allow only authorized container images in the container platform.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Controlling the sources where container images can be pulled from allows the organization to define what software can be run ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000391

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The container platform must be configured to use multi-factor authentication for user authentication.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Controlling access to the container platform and its components is paramount in having a secure and stable system. Validating...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000400

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The container platform must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after an organization-defined time period.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If cached authentication information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable.&lt;/...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000401

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    Group
  • The container platform, for PKI-based authentication, must implement a local cache of revocation data to support path discovery and validation in case of the inability to access revocation information via the network.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The potential of allowing access to users who are no longer authorized (have revoked certificates) increases unless a local ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000402

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The container platform must accept Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials from other federal agencies.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Controlling access to the container platform and its components is paramount in having a secure and stable system. Validating...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000409

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The container platform must audit non-local maintenance and diagnostic sessions' organization-defined audit events associated with non-local maintenance.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To fully investigate an attack, it is important to understand the event and those events taking place during the same time pe...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000411

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    Group
  • Container platform applications and Application Program Interfaces (API) used for nonlocal maintenance sessions must use FIPS-validated keyed-hash message authentication code (HMAC) to protect the integrity of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic communications.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Unapproved mechanisms that are used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not verified, and therefore cannot be ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000412

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    Group
  • The container platform must configure web management tools and Application Program Interfaces (API) with FIPS-validated Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher block algorithm to protect the confidentiality of maintenance and diagnostic communications for nonlocal maintenance sessions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without confidentiality protection mechanisms, unauthorized individuals may gain access to sensitive information via a remote...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000414

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Vulnerability scanning applications must implement privileged access authorization to all container platform components, containers, and container images for selected organization-defined vulnerability scanning activities.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In certain situations, the nature of the vulnerability scanning may be more intrusive, or the container platform component th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The container platform must implement NSA-approved cryptography to protect classified information in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data and images. The...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000429

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The container platform keystore must implement encryption to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information at rest within the container platform.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Container platform keystore is used for container deployments for persistent storage of all its REST API objects. These objec...
    Rule Medium Severity

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