III - Administrative Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-OS-000126
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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
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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
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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 -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The operating system must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect and restrict access to information on portable digital media.
<VulnDiscussion>When data is written to portable digital media, such as thumb drives, floppy diskettes, compact disks, and magnetic tape, etc...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000185
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The operating system must protect the confidentiality and integrity of information at rest.
<VulnDiscussion>When data is written to digital media, such as hard drives, mobile computers, external/removable hard drives, personal digita...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000216
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The operating system must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of audit information.
<VulnDiscussion>Protection of audit records and audit data is of critical importance. Cryptographic mechanisms are the industry established s...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The sticky bit must be set on all world writable directories.
<VulnDiscussion>Files in directories that have had the "sticky bit" enabled can only be deleted by users that have both write permissions for...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Permissions on user home directories must be 750 or less permissive.
<VulnDiscussion>Group-writable or world-writable user home directories may enable malicious users to steal or modify other users' data or to ...Rule Medium Severity
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