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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • RHEL 9 must not have unauthorized IP tunnels configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;IP tunneling mechanisms can be used to bypass network filtering. If tunneling is required, it must be documented with the inf...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must be configured to prevent unrestricted mail relaying.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If unrestricted mail relaying is permitted, unauthorized senders could use this host as a mail relay for the purpose of sendi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022

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  • RHEL 9 must forward mail from postmaster to the root account using a postfix alias.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • RHEL 9 libreswan package must be installed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Providing the ability for remote users or systems to initiate a secure VPN connection protects information when it is transmi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • There must be no shosts.equiv files on RHEL 9.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The shosts.equiv files are used to configure host-based authentication for the system via SSH. Host-based authentication is n...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • There must be no .shosts files on RHEL 9.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The .shosts files are used to configure host-based authentication for individual users or the system via SSH. Host-based auth...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • RHEL 9 must be configured to use TCP syncookies.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Denial of service (DoS) is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organizat...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • RHEL 9 must ignore Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;ICMP redirect messages are used by routers to inform hosts that a more direct route exists for a particular destination. Thes...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • RHEL 9 must not forward Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) source-routed packets.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Source-routed packets allow the source of the packet to suggest routers forward the packet along a different path than config...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • RHEL 9 must log IPv4 packets with impossible addresses.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The presence of "martian" packets (which have impossible addresses) as well as spoofed packets, source-routed packets, and re...
    Rule Medium Severity

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