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III - Administrative Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000427-AS-000264

    Group
  • JBoss must be configured to use DoD PKI-established certificate authorities for verification of the establishment of protected sessions.

    Untrusted Certificate Authorities (CA) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that seek to compromise DoD systems or by organizations with insufficient secur...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000435-AS-000069

    Group
  • The JBoss server, when hosting mission critical applications, must be in a high-availability (HA) cluster.

    A MAC I system is a system that handles data vital to the organization's operational readiness or effectiveness of deployed or contingency forces. A MAC I system must maintain the highest level of...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000439-AS-000155

    Group
  • JBoss must be configured to use an approved TLS version.

    Preventing the disclosure of transmitted information requires that the application server take measures to employ some form of cryptographic mechanism in order to protect the information during tra...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000440-AS-000167

    Group
  • JBoss must be configured to use an approved cryptographic algorithm in conjunction with TLS.

    Preventing the disclosure or modification of transmitted information requires that application servers take measures to employ approved cryptography in order to protect the information during trans...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000456-AS-000266

    Group
  • Production JBoss servers must be supported by the vendor.

    The JBoss product is available as Open Source; however, the Red Hat vendor provides updates, patches and support for the JBoss product. It is imperative that patches and updates be applied to JBos...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000456-AS-000266

    Group
  • The JRE installed on the JBoss server must be kept up to date.

    The JBoss product is available as Open Source; however, the Red Hat vendor provides updates, patches and support for the JBoss product. It is imperative that patches and updates be applied to JBos...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000495-AS-000220

    Group
  • JBoss must be configured to generate log records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify privileges occur.

    Changing privileges of a subject/object may cause a subject/object to gain or lose capabilities. When successful/unsuccessful changes are made, the event needs to be logged. By logging the event,...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000499-AS-000224

    Group
  • JBoss must be configured to generate log records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete privileges occur.

    Deleting privileges of a subject/object may cause a subject/object to gain or lose capabilities. When successful and unsuccessful privilege deletions are made, the events need to be logged. By lo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000503-AS-000228

    Group
  • JBoss must be configured to generate log records when successful/unsuccessful logon attempts occur.

    Logging the access to the application server allows the system administrators to monitor user accounts. By logging successful/unsuccessful logons, the system administrator can determine if an acco...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000504-AS-000229

    Group
  • JBoss must be configured to generate log records for privileged activities.

    Without generating log records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an inci...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000505-AS-000230

    Group
  • JBoss must be configured to generate log records that show starting and ending times for access to the application server management interface.

    Determining when a user has accessed the management interface is important to determine the timeline of events when a security incident occurs. Generating these events, especially if the managemen...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000506-AS-000231

    Group
  • JBoss must be configured to generate log records when concurrent logons from different workstations occur to the application server management interface.

    Concurrent logons from different systems could possibly indicate a compromised account. When concurrent logons are made from different workstations to the management interface, a log record needs ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000509-AS-000234

    Group
  • JBoss must be configured to generate log records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events.

    The maintenance of user accounts is a key activity within the system to determine access and privileges. Through changes to accounts, an attacker can create an account for persistent access, modif...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000514-AS-000137

    Group
  • The JBoss server must be configured to use DoD- or CNSS-approved PKI Class 3 or Class 4 certificates.

    Class 3 PKI certificates are used for servers and software signing rather than for identifying individuals. Class 4 certificates are used for business-to-business transactions. Utilizing unapproved...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000515-AS-000203

    Group
  • JBoss servers must be configured to roll over and transfer logs on a minimum weekly basis.

    Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Protecting log data is important during a forensic investigation to ensure investigators can tr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237

    Group
  • The JBoss server must be configured to bind the management interfaces to only management networks.

    JBoss provides multiple interfaces for accessing the system. By default, these are called "public" and "management". Allowing non-management traffic to access the JBoss management interface incre...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000014-AS-000009

    Group
  • HTTP management session traffic must be encrypted.

    Types of management interfaces utilized by the JBoss EAP application server include web-based HTTP interfaces as well as command line-based management interfaces. In the event remote HTTP manageme...
    Rule Medium Severity

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