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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000365-GPOS-00152

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    Group
  • AIX must be configured to use syslogd to log events by TCPD.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without auditing the enforcement of access restrictions against changes to the application configuration, it will be difficul...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000063-GPOS-00032

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    Group
  • The AIX audit configuration files must be owned by root.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel ma...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000063-GPOS-00032

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    Group
  • The AIX audit configuration files must be group-owned by audit.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel ma...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000063-GPOS-00032

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    Group
  • The AIX audit configuration files must be set to 640 or less permissive.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel ma...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000029-GPOS-00010

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    Group
  • AIX must automatically lock after 15 minutes of inactivity in the CDE Graphical desktop environment.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A session time-out lock is a temporary action taken when a user stops work and moves away from the immediate physical vicinit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000279-GPOS-00109

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    Group
  • AIX must set inactivity time-out on login sessions and terminate all login sessions after 10 minutes of inactivity.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Automatic session termination addresses the termination of user-initiated logical sessions in contrast to the termination of ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000067-GPOS-00035

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    Group
  • AIX SSH private host key files must have mode 0600 or less permissive.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the private key is discovered, an attacker can use the key to authenticate as an authorized user and gain access to the ne...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000074-GPOS-00042

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    Group
  • AIX must disable /usr/bin/rcp, /usr/bin/rlogin, /usr/bin/rsh, /usr/bin/rexec and /usr/bin/telnet commands.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The listed applications permit the transmission of passwords in plain text. Alternative applications such as SSH, which encr...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

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    Group
  • AIX log files must have mode 0640 or less permissive.

    &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
  • AIX log files must not have extended ACLs, except as needed to support authorized software.

    &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

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