I - Mission Critical Sensitive
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must disable directed broadcast packet forwarding.
<VulnDiscussion>This parameter must be disabled to reduce the risk of denial of service attacks.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives>...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must not respond to ICMP timestamp requests.
<VulnDiscussion>By accurately determining the system's clock state, an attacker can more effectively attack certain time-based pseudorandom n...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must not respond to ICMP broadcast timestamp requests.
<VulnDiscussion>By accurately determining the system's clock state, an attacker can more effectively attack certain time-based pseudorandom n...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must not respond to ICMP broadcast netmask requests.
<VulnDiscussion>By determining the netmasks of various computers in your network, an attacker can better map your subnet structure and infer ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must not respond to broadcast ICMP echo requests.
<VulnDiscussion>ICMP echo requests can be useful for reconnaissance of systems and for denial of service attacks.</VulnDiscussion><F...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must not respond to multicast echo requests.
<VulnDiscussion>Multicast echo requests can be useful for reconnaissance of systems and for denial of service attacks.</VulnDiscussion>...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must ignore ICMP redirect messages.
<VulnDiscussion>Ignoring ICMP redirect messages reduces the likelihood of denial of service attacks.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must set strict multihoming.
<VulnDiscussion>These settings control whether a packet arriving on a non-forwarding interface can be accepted for an IP address that is not ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must disable ICMP redirect messages.
<VulnDiscussion>A malicious user can exploit the ability of the system to send ICMP redirects by continually sending packets to the system, f...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must disable TCP reverse IP source routing.
<VulnDiscussion>If enabled, reverse IP source routing would allow an attacker to more easily complete a three-way TCP handshake and spoof new...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must set maximum number of half-open TCP connections to 4096.
<VulnDiscussion>This setting controls how many half-open connections can exist for a TCP port. It is necessary to control the number of comp...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must set maximum number of incoming connections to 1024.
<VulnDiscussion>This setting controls the maximum number of incoming connections that can be accepted on a TCP port limiting exposure to deni...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must disable network routing unless required.
<VulnDiscussion>The network routing daemon, in.routed, manages network routing tables. If enabled, it periodically supplies copies of the sys...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must implement TCP Wrappers.
<VulnDiscussion>TCP Wrappers is a host-based access control system that allows administrators to control who has access to various network se...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The boundary protection system (firewall) must be configured to deny network traffic by default and must allow network traffic by exception (i.e., deny all, permit by exception).
<VulnDiscussion>A firewall that relies on a deny all, permit by exception strategy requires all traffic to have explicit permission before tr...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The system must prevent local applications from generating source-routed packets.
<VulnDiscussion>Source-routed packets allow the source of the packet to suggest that routers forward the packet along a different path than c...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000023
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The operating system must display the DoD approved system use notification message or banner before granting access to the system for general system logons.
<VulnDiscussion>Warning messages inform users who are attempting to log in to the system of their legal status regarding the system and must ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000023
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The operating system must display the DoD approved system use notification message or banner for SSH connections.
<VulnDiscussion>Warning messages inform users who are attempting to log in to the system of their legal status regarding the system and must ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000023
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The GNOME service must display the DoD approved system use notification message or banner before granting access to the system.
<VulnDiscussion>Warning messages inform users who are attempting to log in to the system of their legal status regarding the system and must ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000023
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The FTP service must display the DoD approved system use notification message or banner before granting access to the system.
<VulnDiscussion>Warning messages inform users who are attempting to log in to the system of their legal status regarding the system and must ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000126
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The operating system must terminate all sessions and network connections when nonlocal maintenance is completed.
<VulnDiscussion>Nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic activities are those activities conducted by individuals communicating through a network,...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The operating system must prevent internal users from sending out packets which attempt to manipulate or spoof invalid IP addresses.
<VulnDiscussion>Manipulation of IP addresses can allow untrusted systems to appear as trusted hosts, bypassing firewall and other security me...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000481
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Wireless network adapters must be disabled.
<VulnDiscussion>The use of wireless networking can introduce many different attack vectors into the organization’s network. Common attack vec...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000481
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The operating system must use mechanisms for authentication to a cryptographic module meeting the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for such authentication.
<VulnDiscussion>Encryption is only as good as the encryption modules utilized. Unapproved cryptographic module algorithms cannot be verified,...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000033
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The operating system must implement DoD-approved encryption to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions.
<VulnDiscussion>Remote access is any access to an organizational information system by a user (or an information system) communicating throug...Rule Medium Severity
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