DRAFT - CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Benchmark for Level 2 - Workstation
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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Ensure Log Files Are Owned By Appropriate Group
The group-owner of all log files written by <code>rsyslog</code> should be <code>root</code>. These log files are determined by the second part of ...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure Log Files Are Owned By Appropriate User
The owner of all log files written by <code>rsyslog</code> should be <code>root</code>. These log files are determined by the second part of each...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure System Log Files Have Correct Permissions
The file permissions for all log files written by <code>rsyslog</code> should be set to 640, or more restrictive. These log files are determined by...Rule Medium Severity -
systemd-journald
systemd-journald is a system service that collects and stores logging data. It creates and maintains structured, indexed journals based on logging ...Group -
Install systemd-journal-remote Package
Journald (via systemd-journal-remote ) supports the ability to send log events it gathers to a remote log host or to receive messages from remote h...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable systemd-journald Service
The <code>systemd-journald</code> service is an essential component of systemd. The <code>systemd-journald</code> service can be enabled with the ...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure journald is configured to compress large log files
The journald system can compress large log files to avoid fill the system disk.Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure journald is configured to write log files to persistent disk
The journald system may store log files in volatile memory or locally on disk. If the logs are only stored in volatile memory they will we lost upo...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable systemd-journal-remote Socket
Journald supports the ability to receive messages from remote hosts, thus acting as a log server. Clients should not receive data from other hosts....Rule Medium Severity -
Network Configuration and Firewalls
Most systems must be connected to a network of some sort, and this brings with it the substantial risk of network attack. This section discusses th...Group -
firewalld
The dynamic firewall daemon <code>firewalld</code> provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network “zones” to assign a level of tr...Group -
Inspect and Activate Default firewalld Rules
Firewalls can be used to separate networks into different zones based on the level of trust the user has decided to place on the devices and traffi...Group -
Install firewalld Package
Thefirewalldpackage can be installed with the following command:$ sudo dnf install firewalld
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Verify firewalld Enabled
Thefirewalldservice can be enabled with the following command:$ sudo systemctl enable firewalld.service
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Strengthen the Default Ruleset
The default rules can be strengthened. The system scripts that activate the firewall rules expect them to be defined in configuration files under t...Group -
Configure Firewalld to Restrict Loopback Traffic
Configure <code>firewalld</code> to restrict loopback traffic to the <code>lo</code> interface. The loopback traffic must be trusted by assigning ...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure Firewalld to Trust Loopback Traffic
Assign loopback interface to the <code>firewalld</code> <code>trusted</code> zone in order to explicitly allow the loopback traff...Rule Medium Severity -
IPv6
The system includes support for Internet Protocol version 6. A major and often-mentioned improvement over IPv4 is its enormous increase in the numb...Group -
Configure IPv6 Settings if Necessary
A major feature of IPv6 is the extent to which systems implementing it can automatically configure their networking devices using information from ...Group -
Configure Accepting Router Advertisements on All IPv6 Interfaces
To set the runtime status of the <code>net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra</code> kernel parameter, run the following command: <pre>$ sudo sysctl -w net.ip...Rule Medium Severity
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