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III - Administrative Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • All OL 8 local interactive user accounts must be assigned a home directory upon creation.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If local interactive users are not assigned a valid home directory, there is no place for the storage and control of files th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • All OL 8 local initialization files must have mode "0740" or less permissive.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Local initialization files are used to configure the user's shell environment upon logon. Malicious modification of these fil...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • All OL 8 files and directories must have a valid owner.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Unowned files and directories may be unintentionally inherited if a user is assigned the same User Identifier "UID" as the UI...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • All OL 8 files and directories must have a valid group owner.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Files without a valid group owner may be unintentionally inherited if a group is assigned the same Group Identifier (GID) as ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • A separate OL 8 filesystem must be used for user home directories (such as "/home" or an equivalent).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The use of separate file systems for different paths can protect the system from failures resulting from a file system becomi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00229

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  • Unattended or automatic logon via the OL 8 graphical user interface must not be allowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failure to restrict system access to authenticated users negatively impacts operating system security.&lt;/VulnDiscussion&gt;...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00229

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  • OL 8 must not allow users to override SSH environment variables.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;SSH environment options potentially allow users to bypass access restriction in some configurations.&lt;/VulnDiscussion&gt;&l...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000002-GPOS-00002

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    Group
  • OL 8 temporary user accounts must be provisioned with an expiration time of 72 hours or less.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If temporary user accounts remain active when no longer needed or for an excessive period, these accounts may be used to gain...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005

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  • OL 8 systems below version 8.2 must automatically lock an account when three unsuccessful logon attempts occur.

    &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-OS-000021-GPOS-00005

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  • OL 8 systems, versions 8.2 and above, must automatically lock an account when three unsuccessful logon attempts occur.

    &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

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