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II - Mission Support Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015

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  • OL 8 must generate audit records for any use of the "chmod", "fchmod", and "fchmodat" system calls.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015

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  • OL 8 must generate audit records for any use of the "sudo" command.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015

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  • OL 8 must generate audit records for any use of the "usermod" command.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015

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  • OL 8 must generate audit records for any use of the "chacl" command.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015

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  • OL 8 must generate audit records for any use of the "kmod" command.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015

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  • OL 8 must generate audit records for any attempted modifications to the "faillock" log file.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015

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  • OL 8 must generate audit records for any attempted modifications to the "lastlog" file.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015

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  • OL 8 must enable auditing of processes that start prior to the audit daemon.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015

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  • OL 8 must allocate an "audit_backlog_limit" of sufficient size to capture processes that start prior to the audit daemon.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215

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  • OL 8 must enable Linux audit logging for the USBGuard daemon.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000063-GPOS-00032

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  • OL 8 must allow only the Information System Security Manager (ISSM) (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be audited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to restrict the roles and individuals that can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000256-GPOS-00097

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  • OL 8 audit tools must have a mode of "0755" or less permissive.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Protecting audit information includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, p...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000256-GPOS-00097

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  • OL 8 audit tools must be owned by root.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Protecting audit information includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, p...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000256-GPOS-00097

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  • OL 8 audit tools must be group-owned by root.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Protecting audit information also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000278-GPOS-00108

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  • OL 8 must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of audit tools.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Protecting the integrity of the tools used for auditing purposes is a critical step toward ensuring the integrity of audit in...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000341-GPOS-00132

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  • OL 8 must allocate audit record storage capacity to store at least one week of audit records when audit records are not immediately sent to a central audit record storage facility.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To ensure OL 8 systems have a sufficient storage capacity in which to write the audit logs, OL 8 needs to be able to allocate...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • OL 8 must have the packages required for offloading audit logs installed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Offloading is a commo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • OL 8 must have the packages required for encrypting offloaded audit logs installed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Offloading is a commo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133

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  • The OL 8 audit records must be offloaded onto a different system or storage media from the system being audited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Offloading is a commo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133

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  • OL 8 must take appropriate action when the internal event queue is full.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Offloading is a commo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133

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  • OL 8 must encrypt the transfer of audit records offloaded onto a different system or media from the system being audited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Offloading is a commo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133

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  • OL 8 must authenticate the remote logging server for offloading audit logs.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Offloading is a commo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000343-GPOS-00134

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  • OL 8 must take action when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of the repository maximum audit record storage capacity.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If security personnel are not notified immediately when storage volume reaches 75 percent utilization, they are unable to pla...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000343-GPOS-00134

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  • OL 8 must notify the System Administrator (SA) and Information System Security Officer (ISSO) (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume 75 percent utilization.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If security personnel are not notified immediately when storage volume reaches 75 percent utilization, they are unable to pla...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000355-GPOS-00143

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  • OL 8 must compare internal information system clocks at least every 24 hours with a server synchronized to an authoritative time source, such as the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) time servers, or a time server designated for the appropriate DOD network (NIPRNet/SIPRNet), and/or the Global Positioning System (GPS).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the cor...
    Rule Medium Severity

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