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III - Administrative Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • RHEL 9 must not have unauthorized accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Accounts providing no operational purpose provide additional opportunities for system compromise. Unnecessary accounts includ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • The root account must be the only account having unrestricted access to RHEL 9 system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;An account has root authority if it has a user identifier (UID) of "0". Multiple accounts with a UID of "0" afford more oppor...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must ensure account lockouts persist.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Having lockouts persist across reboots ensures that account is only unlocked by an administrator. If the lockouts did not per...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 groups must have unique Group ID (GID).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, groups must be identified uniquely to prevent potential misuse a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • Local RHEL 9 initialization files must not execute world-writable programs.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If user start-up files execute world-writable programs, especially in unprotected directories, they could be maliciously modi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000163-GPOS-00072

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must automatically exit interactive command shell user sessions after 15 minutes of inactivity.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Terminating an idle interactive command shell user session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for u...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000027-GPOS-00008

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must limit the number of concurrent sessions to ten for all accounts and/or account types.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Operating system management includes the ability to control the number of users and user sessions that utilize an operating s...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must log username information when unsuccessful logon attempts occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without auditing of these events, it may be harder or impossible to identify what an attacker did after an attack.&lt;/VulnDi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00226

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must enforce a delay of at least four seconds between logon prompts following a failed logon attempt.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Increasing the time between a failed authentication attempt and reprompting to enter credentials helps to slow a single-threa...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00228

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must define default permissions for the bash shell.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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-00228

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must define default permissions for the c shell.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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-00228

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must define default permissions for all authenticated users in such a way that the user can only read and modify their own files.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must define default permissions for the system default profile.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must display the date and time of the last successful account logon upon logon.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Users need to be aware of activity that occurs regarding their account. Providing users with information regarding the number...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000163-GPOS-00072

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must terminate idle user sessions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take c...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000445-GPOS-00199

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must use a Linux Security Module configured to enforce limits on system services.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without verification of the security functions, security functions may not operate correctly and the failure may go unnoticed...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000445-GPOS-00199

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must enable the SELinux targeted policy.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Setting the SELinux policy to "targeted" or a more specialized policy ensures the system will confine processes that are like...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must configure SELinux context type to allow the use of a nondefault faillock tally directory.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Not having the correct SELinux context on the faillock directory may lead to unauthorized access to the directory.&lt;/VulnDi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must have policycoreutils package installed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without verification of the security functions, security functions may not operate correctly and the failure may go unnoticed...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 policycoreutils-python-utils package must be installed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The policycoreutils-python-utils package is required to operate and manage an SELinux environment and its policies. It provid...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000324-GPOS-00125

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must have the sudo package installed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;"sudo" is a program designed to allow a system administrator to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000373-GPOS-00156

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must require reauthentication when using the "sudo" command.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without reauthentication, users may access resources or perform tasks for which they do not have authorization. When operat...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • RHEL 9 must use the invoking user's password for privilege escalation when using "sudo".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the rootpw, targetpw, or runaspw flags are defined and not disabled, by default the operating system will prompt the invok...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000373-GPOS-00156

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must require users to reauthenticate for privilege escalation.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without reauthentication, users may access resources or perform tasks for which they do not have authorization. When operati...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • RHEL 9 must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the "sudoers" file is not configured correctly, any user defined on the system can initiate privileged actions on the targ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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