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II - Mission Support Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000150

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for network access to non-privileged accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, non-privileged users must use multifactor authentication to prev...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000151

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for local access to privileged accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, privileged users must use multifactor authentication to prevent ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000152

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for local access to nonprivileged accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To ensure accountability, prevent unauthenticated access, and prevent misuse of the system, nonprivileged users must use mult...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000153

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must verify users are authenticated with an individual authenticator prior to using a group authenticator.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To ensure individual accountability and prevent unauthorized access, application users must be individually identified and au...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000164

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is comprom...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000166

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one uppercase character be used.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000167

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lowercase character be used.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000168

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric character be used.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000169

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one special character be used.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000170

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must require the change of at least eight of the total number of characters when passwords are changed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the application allows the user to consecutively reuse extensive portions of passwords, this increases the chances of pass...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000171

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must store only cryptographically protected passwords.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Passwords need to be protected at all times and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000172

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must transmit only cryptographically protected passwords.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Passwords need to be protected at all times and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000173

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must enforce 24 hours/1 day as the minimum password lifetime.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforce...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000174

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must enforce a 60-day maximum password lifetime restriction.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Any password, no matter how complex, can eventually be cracked; therefore, passwords need to be changed at specific intervals...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000175

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product, when using PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by constructing a certification path (which includes status information) to an accepted trust anchor.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without path validation, an informed trust decision by the relying party cannot be made when presented with any certificate n...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000176

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product, when using PKI-based authentication, must enforce authorized access to the corresponding private key.

    &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-APP-000177

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must map the authenticated identity to the individual user or group account for PKI-based authentication.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without mapping the certificate used to authenticate to the user account, the ability to determine the identity of the indivi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000178

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process to protect the information from possible exploitation/use by unauthorized individuals.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To prevent the compromise of authentication information such as passwords during the authentication process, the feedback fro...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000179

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must use mechanisms meeting the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for authentication to a cryptographic module.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Unapproved mechanisms that are used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not verified and therefore cannot be r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000180

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Lack of authentication and identification enables non-organizational users to gain access to the application or possibly othe...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000181

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ability to generate on-demand reports, including after the audit data has been subjected to audit reduction, greatly faci...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000206

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must identify prohibited mobile code.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within applications are based on the potential for the code to cause damage...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000207

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must block, quarantine, and/or alert system administrators when prohibited mobile code is identified.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000209

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must prevent the download of prohibited mobile code.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000210

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    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must prevent the automatic execution of mobile code in, at a minimum, office applications, browsers, email clients, mobile code run-time environments, and mobile agent systems.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Mobile code can cause damage to the system. It can execute without explicit action from, or notification to, a user. Preven...
    Rule Medium Severity

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