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Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000320

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  • The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators of account enabling actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Once an attacker establishes access to an application, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of re-establ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000328

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must enforce organization-defined discretionary access control policies over defined subjects and objects.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have di...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000340

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  • The Mainframe Product must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proce...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000342

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  • The Mainframe Product must prevent software as identified in the site security plan from executing at higher privilege levels than users executing the software.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In certain situations, software applications/programs need to execute with elevated privileges to perform required functions....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000343

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  • The Mainframe Product must audit the execution of privileged functions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Misuse of privileged functions, either intentionally or unintentionally by authorized users, or by unauthorized external enti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000345

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  • The Mainframe Product must automatically lock the account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts in 15 minutes are exceeded.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000357

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  • The mainframe product 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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  • The Mainframe Product must off-load audit records onto a different system or media than the system being audited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000359

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  • The Mainframe Product must provide an immediate warning to the system programmer and security administrator (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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  • The Mainframe Product must provide an immediate real-time alert to the operations staff, system programmers, and/or security administrators, 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-000364

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  • The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand audit review and analysis.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ability to perform on-demand audit review and analysis, including after the audit data has been subjected to audit reduct...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000365

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  • The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that supports after-the-fact investigations of security incidents.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the audit reduction capability does not support after-the-fact investigations, it is difficult to establish, correlate, an...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000366

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must provide a report generation capability that supports on-demand audit review and analysis.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The report generation capability must support on-demand review and analysis in order to facilitate the organization's ability...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000367

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must provide a report generation capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The report generation capability must support on-demand reporting in order to facilitate the organization's ability to genera...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000368

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  • The Mainframe Product must provide a report generation capability that supports after-the-fact investigations of security incidents.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the report generation capability does not support after-the-fact investigations, it is difficult to establish, correlate, ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000369

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that does not alter original content or time ordering of audit records.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the audit reduction capability alters the content or time ordering of audit records, the integrity of the audit records is...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000370

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must provide a report generation capability that does not alter original content or time ordering of audit records.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the audit report generation capability alters the original content or time ordering of audit records, the integrity of the...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000378

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    Group
  • The Mainframe product must prohibit user installation of software without explicit privileged status.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Allowing regular users to install software, without explicit privileges, creates the risk that untested or potentially malici...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000379

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  • The Mainframe Product must implement organization-defined automated security responses if baseline configurations are changed in an unauthorized manner.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Unauthorized changes to the baseline configuration could make the system vulnerable to various attacks or allow unauthorized ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000380

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must enforce access restrictions associated with changes to application configuration.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failure to provide logical access restrictions associated with changes to application configuration may have significant effe...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000381

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  • The Mainframe Product must audit the enforcement actions used to restrict access associated with changes to the application.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without auditing the enforcement of access restrictions against changes to the application configuration, it will be difficul...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000391

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  • The Mainframe Product must accept Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The use of PIV credentials facilitates standardization and reduces the risk of unauthorized access. DoD has mandated the use...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000392

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  • The Mainframe Product must electronically verify Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The use of PIV credentials facilitates standardization and reduces the risk of unauthorized access. DoD has mandated the use...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000400

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after one hour.

    &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-000402

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  • The Mainframe Product must accept Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials from other federal agencies.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Access may be denied to authorized users if federal agency PIV credentials are not accepted. PIV credentials are those cred...
    Rule Medium Severity

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