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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00216

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  • The Photon operating system must be configured to audit the loading and unloading of dynamic kernel modules.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
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  • SRG-OS-000478-GPOS-00223

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  • The Photon operating system must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography for the following: to provision digital signatures, to generate cryptographic hashes, and to protect unclassified information requiring confidentiality and cryptographic protection in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The operating ...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00225

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  • The Photon operating system must prevent the use of dictionary words for passwords.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the operating system allows the user to select passwords based on dictionary words, then this increases the chances of pas...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00226

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  • The Photon operating system must enforce a delay of at least four seconds between logon prompts following a failed logon attempt in login.defs.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Limiting the number of logon attempts over a certain time interval reduces the chances that an unauthorized user may gain acc...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The Photon operating system must ensure audit events are flushed to disk at proper intervals.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00228

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  • The Photon operating system must define default permissions for all authenticated users in such a way that the user can only read and modify their own files.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Setting the most restrictive default permissions ensures that when new accounts are created they do not have unnecessary acce...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00229

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  • The Photon operating system must configure Secure Shell (SSH) to disallow HostbasedAuthentication.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;SSH trust relationships enable trivial lateral spread after a host compromise and therefore must be explicitly disabled.&lt;/...
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  • SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005

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  • The Photon operating system must be configured to use the pam_faillock.so module.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...
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  • SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005

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  • The Photon operating system must prevent leaking information of the existence of a user account.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...
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  • SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005

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  • The Photon operating system must audit logon attempts for unknown users.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...
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