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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000312

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  • The VMM must implement discretionary access controls to allow VMM admins to grant their privileges to other VMM admins.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have di...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000312

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  • The VMM must implement discretionary access controls to allow VMM admins to change security attributes on users, guest VMs, the VMM, or the VMMs components.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have di...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000312

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  • The VMM must implement discretionary access controls to allow VMM admins to choose the security attributes to be associated with newly created or revised guest VMs.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have di...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000324

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  • The VMM must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt; Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proc...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000326

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  • The VMM must prevent all software from executing at higher privilege levels than users executing the software.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In certain situations, guest VMs, applications, and programs need to execute with elevated privileges to perform required fun...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000327

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  • The VMM must audit the execution of privileged functions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt; Misuse of privileged functions, either intentionally or unintentionally, by authorized users, or by unauthorized external en...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000329

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  • The VMM must automatically lock an account until the locked account is released by an administrator, when three unsuccessful logon attempts in 15 minutes are made.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000337

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  • The VMM must provide the capability for assigned IMOs/ISSOs or designated SAs to change the auditing to be performed on all VMM components, based on all selectable event criteria in near real time.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If authorized individuals do not have the ability to modify auditing parameters in response to a changing threat environment,...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000341

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  • The VMM must allocate audit record storage capacity to store at least one weeks worth of audit records when audit records are not immediately sent to a central audit record storage facility.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In order to ensure VMMs have a sufficient storage capacity in which to write the audit logs, VMMs need to be able to allocate...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000342

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  • The VMM must off-load audit records onto a different system or media than the system being audited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common...
    Rule Medium Severity

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