I - Mission Critical Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The Photon operating system must log IPv4 packets with impossible addresses.
<VulnDiscussion>The presence of "martian" packets (which have impossible addresses) as well as spoofed packets, source-routed packets, and re...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The Photon operating system must use a reverse-path filter for IPv4 network traffic.
<VulnDiscussion>Enabling reverse path filtering drops packets with source addresses that should not have been able to be received on the inte...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The Photon operating system must not perform IPv4 packet forwarding.
<VulnDiscussion>Routing protocol daemons are typically used on routers to exchange network topology information with other routers. If this s...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The Photon operating system must send TCP timestamps.
<VulnDiscussion>TCP timestamps are used to provide protection against wrapped sequence numbers. It is possible to calculate system uptime (an...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The Photon operating system must be configured to protect the Secure Shell (SSH) public host key from unauthorized modification.
<VulnDiscussion>If a public host key file is modified by an unauthorized user, the SSH service may be compromised.</VulnDiscussion><...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The Photon operating system must be configured to protect the Secure Shell (SSH) private host key from unauthorized access.
<VulnDiscussion>If an unauthorized user obtains the private SSH host key file, the host could be impersonated.</VulnDiscussion><Fals...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The Photon operating system must enforce password complexity on the root account.
<VulnDiscussion>Password complexity rules must apply to all accounts on the system, including root. Without specifying the enforce_for_root f...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The Photon operating system must disable systemd fallback DNS.
<VulnDiscussion>Systemd contains an ability to set fallback DNS servers, which is used for DNS lookups in the event no system level DNS serve...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The Photon operating system must generate audit records for all access and modifications to the opasswd file.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000250-GPOS-00093
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The Photon operating system must implement only approved Message Authentication Codes (MACs) to protect the integrity of remote access sessions.
<VulnDiscussion>Without cryptographic integrity protections, information can be altered by unauthorized users without detection. Remote acce...Rule High Severity
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