III - Administrative Classified
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-OS-000077-GPOS-00045
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
SLEM 5 must not allow passwords to be reused for a minimum of five generations.
<VulnDiscussion>Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000073-GPOS-00041
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
SLEM 5 must configure the Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) to only store encrypted representations of passwords.
<VulnDiscussion>Passwords need to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
SLEM 5 must not be configured to allow blank or null passwords.
<VulnDiscussion>Passwords need to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
SLEM 5 must not have 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-000075-GPOS-00043
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
SLEM 5 must employ user passwords with a minimum lifetime of 24 hours (one day).
<VulnDiscussion>Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforce...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000076-GPOS-00044
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
SLEM 5 must employ user passwords with a maximum lifetime of 60 days.
<VulnDiscussion>Any password, no matter how complex, can eventually be cracked. Therefore, passwords need to be changed periodically. If SLEM...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000077-GPOS-00045
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
SLEM 5 must employ a password history file.
<VulnDiscussion>Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000073-GPOS-00041
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
SLEM 5 must employ FIPS 140-2/140-3-approved cryptographic hashing algorithms for system authentication.
<VulnDiscussion>The system must use a strong hashing algorithm to store the password. The system must use a sufficient number of hashing roun...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000073-GPOS-00041
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
SLEM 5 shadow password suite must be configured to use a sufficient number of hashing rounds.
<VulnDiscussion>The system must use a strong hashing algorithm to store the password. The system must use a sufficient number of hashing roun...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000120-GPOS-00061
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
SLEM 5 must employ FIPS 140-2/140-3 approved cryptographic hashing algorithm for system authentication (login.defs).
<VulnDiscussion>Unapproved mechanisms that are used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not verified and therefore cannot be r...Rule Medium Severity
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