DRAFT - DISA STIG for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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Disable Compression Or Set Compression to delayed
Compression is useful for slow network connections over long distances but can cause performance issues on local LANs. If use of compression is required, it should be enabled only after a user has ...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable SSH Access via Empty Passwords
Disallow SSH login with empty passwords. The default SSH configuration disables logins with empty passwords. The appropriate configuration is used if no value is set for <code>PermitEmptyPasswords<...Rule High Severity -
Disable GSSAPI Authentication
Unless needed, SSH should not permit extraneous or unnecessary authentication mechanisms like GSSAPI. <br> The default SSH configuration disallows authentications based on GSSAPI. The appropriate c...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable Kerberos Authentication
Unless needed, SSH should not permit extraneous or unnecessary authentication mechanisms like Kerberos. <br> The default SSH configuration disallows authentication validation through Kerberos. The ...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable SSH Support for .rhosts Files
SSH can emulate the behavior of the obsolete rsh command in allowing users to enable insecure access to their accounts via <code>.rhosts</code> files. <br> The default SSH configuration disables su...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable SSH Root Login
The root user should never be allowed to login to a system directly over a network. To disable root login via SSH, add or correct the following line in <code>/etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/00-compliancea...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable SSH Support for User Known Hosts
SSH can allow system users to connect to systems if a cache of the remote systems public keys is available. This should be disabled. <br> <br> To ensure this behavior is disabled, ...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable X11 Forwarding
The X11Forwarding parameter provides the ability to tunnel X11 traffic through the connection to enable remote graphic connections. SSH has the capability to encrypt remote X11 connections when SSH...Rule Medium Severity -
Do Not Allow SSH Environment Options
Ensure that users are not able to override environment variables of the SSH daemon. <br> The default SSH configuration disables environment processing. The appropriate configuration is used if no v...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable PAM
UsePAM Enables the Pluggable Authentication Module interface. If set to “yes” this will enable PAM authentication using ChallengeResponseAuthentication and PasswordAuthentication in addition to PAM...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable Public Key Authentication
Enable SSH login with public keys. <br> The default SSH configuration enables authentication based on public keys. The appropriate configuration is used if no value is set for <code>PubkeyAuthentic...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable Use of Strict Mode Checking
SSHs <code>StrictModes</code> option checks file and ownership permissions in the user's home directory <code>.ssh</code> folder before accepting login. If world- writable permissions are found, lo...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable SSH Warning Banner
To enable the warning banner and ensure it is consistent across the system, add or correct the following line in <code>/etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/00-complianceascode-hardening.conf</code>: <pre>Bann...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable SSH Print Last Log
Ensure that SSH will display the date and time of the last successful account logon. <br> The default SSH configuration enables print of the date and time of the last login. The appropriate configu...Rule Medium Severity -
Force frequent session key renegotiation
The <code>RekeyLimit</code> parameter specifies how often the session key of the is renegotiated, both in terms of amount of data that may be transmitted and the time elapsed.<br> To decrease the d...Rule Medium Severity -
Set SSH Daemon LogLevel to VERBOSE
The <code>VERBOSE</code> parameter configures the SSH daemon to record login and logout activity. To specify the log level in SSH, add or correct the following line in <code>/etc/ssh/sshd_config....Rule Medium Severity -
Prevent remote hosts from connecting to the proxy display
The SSH daemon should prevent remote hosts from connecting to the proxy display. <br> The default SSH configuration for <code>X11UseLocalhost</code> is <code>yes</code>, which prevents remote hosts...Rule Medium Severity -
System Security Services Daemon
The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) is a system daemon that provides access to different identity and authentication providers such as Red Hat's IdM, Microsoft's AD, openLDAP, MIT Kerberos, ...Group -
Certificate status checking in SSSD
Multifactor solutions that require devices separate from information systems gaining access include, for example, hardware tokens providing time-based or challenge-response authenticators and smart...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable Certmap in SSSD
SSSD should be configured to verify the certificate of the user or group. To set this up ensure that section like <code>certmap/testing.test/rule_name</code> is setup in <code>/etc/sssd/sssd.conf<...Rule Medium Severity
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