I - Mission Critical Classified
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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RHEL 8 must not allow accounts configured with blank or null passwords.
<VulnDiscussion>If an account has an empty password, anyone could log on and run commands with the privileges of that account. Accounts with ...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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RHEL 8 must display the date and time of the last successful account logon upon logon.
<VulnDiscussion>Providing users with feedback on when account accesses last occurred facilitates user recognition and reporting of unauthoriz...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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RHEL 8 must display the date and time of the last successful account logon upon an SSH logon.
<VulnDiscussion>Providing users with feedback on when account accesses via SSH last occurred facilitates user recognition and reporting of un...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00228
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RHEL 8 must define default permissions for all authenticated users in such a way that the user can only read and modify their own files.
<VulnDiscussion>Setting the most restrictive default permissions ensures that when new accounts are created, they do not have unnecessary acc...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00228
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RHEL 8 must set the umask value to 077 for all local interactive user accounts.
<VulnDiscussion>The umask controls the default access mode assigned to newly created files. A umask of 077 limits new files to mode 600 or le...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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RHEL 8 must define default permissions for logon and non-logon shells.
<VulnDiscussion>The umask controls the default access mode assigned to newly created files. A umask of 077 limits new files to mode 600 or le...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000326-GPOS-00126
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The RHEL 8 audit system must be configured to audit the execution of privileged functions and prevent all software from executing at higher privilege levels than users executing the software.
<VulnDiscussion>Misuse of privileged functions, either intentionally or unintentionally by authorized users, or by unauthorized external enti...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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Cron logging must be implemented in RHEL 8.
<VulnDiscussion>Cron logging can be used to trace the successful or unsuccessful execution of cron jobs. It can also be used to spot intrusio...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022
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The RHEL 8 System Administrator (SA) and Information System Security Officer (ISSO) (at a minimum) must be alerted of an audit processing failure event.
<VulnDiscussion>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-OS-000046-GPOS-00022
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The RHEL 8 Information System Security Officer (ISSO) and System Administrator (SA) (at a minimum) must have mail aliases to be notified of an audit processing failure.
<VulnDiscussion>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-OS-000047-GPOS-00023
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The RHEL 8 System must take appropriate action when an audit processing failure occurs.
<VulnDiscussion>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-OS-000047-GPOS-00023
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The RHEL 8 audit system must take appropriate action when the audit storage volume is full.
<VulnDiscussion>It is critical that when RHEL 8 is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it takes action to mitigate the fail...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The RHEL 8 audit system must audit local events.
<VulnDiscussion>Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133
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RHEL 8 must label all off-loaded audit logs before sending them to the central log server.
<VulnDiscussion>Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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RHEL 8 must resolve audit information before writing to disk.
<VulnDiscussion>Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027
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RHEL 8 audit logs must have a mode of 0600 or less permissive to prevent unauthorized read access.
<VulnDiscussion>Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027
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RHEL 8 audit logs must be owned by root to prevent unauthorized read access.
<VulnDiscussion>Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027
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RHEL 8 audit logs must be group-owned by root to prevent unauthorized read access.
<VulnDiscussion>Unauthorized disclosure of audit records can reveal system and configuration data to attackers, thus compromising its confide...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027
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RHEL 8 audit log directory must be owned by root to prevent unauthorized read access.
<VulnDiscussion>Unauthorized disclosure of audit records can reveal system and configuration data to attackers, thus compromising its confide...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027
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RHEL 8 audit log directory must be group-owned by root to prevent unauthorized read access.
<VulnDiscussion>Unauthorized disclosure of audit records can reveal system and configuration data to attackers, thus compromising its confide...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027
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RHEL 8 audit log directory must have a mode of 0700 or less permissive to prevent unauthorized read access.
<VulnDiscussion>Unauthorized disclosure of audit records can reveal system and configuration data to attackers, thus compromising its confide...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027
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RHEL 8 audit system must protect auditing rules from unauthorized change.
<VulnDiscussion>Unauthorized disclosure of audit records can reveal system and configuration data to attackers, thus compromising its confide...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027
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RHEL 8 audit system must protect logon UIDs from unauthorized change.
<VulnDiscussion>Unauthorized disclosure of audit records can reveal system and configuration data to attackers, thus compromising its confide...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031
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RHEL 8 must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /etc/shadow.
<VulnDiscussion>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-000062-GPOS-00031
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RHEL 8 must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /etc/security/opasswd.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity
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