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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000138-GPOS-00069

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  • The sticky bit must be set on all SUSE operating system world-writable directories.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing unauthorized information transfers mitigates the risk of information, including encrypted representations of infor...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000142-GPOS-00071

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system must be configured to use TCP syncookies.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Denial of Service (DoS) is a condition in which a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000163-GPOS-00072

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system for all network connections associated with SSH traffic must immediately terminate at the end of the session or after 10 minutes of inactivity.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Automatic session termination addresses the termination of user-initiated logical sessions in contrast to the termination of ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000185-GPOS-00079

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    Group
  • All SUSE operating system persistent disk partitions must implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure or modification of all information that requires at-rest protection.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;SUSE operating systems handling data requiring data-at-rest protections must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unaut...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000205-GPOS-00083

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system must generate error messages that provide information necessary for corrective actions without revealing information that could be exploited by adversaries.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Any operating system providing too much information in error messages risks compromising the data and security of the structu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system must prevent unauthorized users from accessing system error messages.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system library files must have mode 0755 or less permissive.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the SUSE operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implem...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system library directories must have mode 0755 or less permissive.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the SUSE operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implem...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system library files must be owned by root.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the SUSE operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implem...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system library directories must be owned by root.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the SUSE operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implem...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system library files must be group-owned by root.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the SUSE operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implem...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system library directories must be group-owned by root.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the SUSE operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implem...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system must have system commands set to a mode of 0755 or less permissive.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the SUSE operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implem...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system must have directories that contain system commands set to a mode of 0755 or less permissive.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the SUSE operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implem...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system must have system commands owned by root.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the SUSE operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implem...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system must have directories that contain system commands owned by root.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the SUSE operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implem...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system must have system commands group-owned by root or a system account.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the SUSE operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implem...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000259-GPOS-00100

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system must have directories that contain system commands group-owned by root.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the SUSE operating system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implem...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000298-GPOS-00116

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system must have a firewall system installed to immediately disconnect or disable remote access to the whole operating system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Operating system remote access functionality must have the capability to immediately disconnect current users remotely access...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000299-GPOS-00117

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system wireless network adapters must be disabled unless approved and documented.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without protection of communications with wireless peripherals, confidentiality and integrity may be compromised because unpr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000312-GPOS-00122

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    Group
  • SUSE operating system AppArmor tool must be configured to control whitelisted applications and user home directory access control.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Using a whitelist provides a configuration management method for allowing the execution of only authorized software. Using on...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000355-GPOS-00143

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system clock must, for networked systems, be synchronized to an authoritative DOD time source at least every 24 hours.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the cor...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000359-GPOS-00146

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  • The SUSE operating system must be configured to use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analys...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000363-GPOS-00150

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    Group
  • Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) must verify the baseline SUSE operating system configuration at least weekly.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Unauthorized changes to the baseline configuration could make the system vulnerable to various attacks or allow unauthorized ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000366-GPOS-00153

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    Group
  • The SUSE operating system tool zypper must have gpgcheck enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Changes to any software components can have significant effects on the overall security of the SUSE operating system. This re...
    Rule High Severity

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