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III - Administrative Public

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051

    Group
  • TOSS duplicate User IDs (UIDs) must not exist for interactive users.

    To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, interactive users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system. Interactive users incl...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000105-GPOS-00052

    Group
  • TOSS must use multifactor authentication for network and local access to privileged and nonprivileged accounts.

    Without the use of multifactor authentication, the ease of access to privileged functions is greatly increased. Multifactor authentication requires using two or more factors to achieve authenticat...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000118-GPOS-00060

    Group
  • TOSS must disable account identifiers (individuals, groups, roles, and devices) after 35 days of inactivity.

    Inactive identifiers pose a risk to systems and applications because attackers may exploit an inactive identifier and potentially obtain undetected access to the system. Owners of inactive accounts...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000123-GPOS-00064

    Group
  • TOSS must automatically remove or disable emergency accounts after the crisis is resolved or 72 hours.

    Emergency accounts are privileged accounts that are established in response to crisis situations where the need for rapid account activation is required. Therefore, emergency account activation may...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

    Group
  • TOSS must reveal error messages only to authorized users.

    Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an organization's operational state or can identify the operating system or pla...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000299-GPOS-00117

    Group
  • TOSS must protect wireless access to the system using authentication of users and/or devices.

    Allowing devices and users to connect to the system without first authenticating them allows untrusted access and can lead to a compromise or attack. Wireless technologies include, for example, mi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000329-GPOS-00128

    Group
  • TOSS must automatically lock an account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts in 15 minutes occur.

    By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-forcing, is reduced. Limits are imposed by locking the a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000373-GPOS-00156

    Group
  • TOSS must require users to reauthenticate for privilege escalation.

    Without reauthentication, users may access resources or perform tasks for which they do not have authorization. When operating systems provide the capability to escalate a functional capability, ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000373-GPOS-00157

    Group
  • TOSS must require users to provide a password for privilege escalation.

    Without re-authentication, users may access resources or perform tasks for which they do not have authorization. When operating systems provide the capability to escalate a functional capability, ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    Group
  • All TOSS local interactive user accounts must be assigned a home directory upon creation.

    If local interactive users are not assigned a valid home directory, there is no place for the storage and control of files they should own.
    Rule Medium Severity

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