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CUSP - Common User Security Profile for Fedora Workstation

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • 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 upon reboot.
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  • 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. NOTE: The same package, systemd-journal-remot...
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  • 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 the security impact of decisions about networking wh...
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  • firewalld

    The dynamic firewall daemon <code>firewalld</code> provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network “zones” to assign a level of trust to a network and its associated connections an...
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  • 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 traffic within that network. <code>NetworkManager</code>...
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  • Install firewalld Package

    The firewalld package can be installed with the following command: 
    $ sudo dnf install firewalld
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  • Verify firewalld Enabled

    The firewalld service can be enabled with the following command: 
    $ sudo systemctl enable firewalld.service
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  • IPv6

    The system includes support for Internet Protocol version 6. A major and often-mentioned improvement over IPv4 is its enormous increase in the number of available addresses. Another important featu...
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  • 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 the network. From a security perspective, manually...
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  • Disable Accepting ICMP Redirects for All IPv6 Interfaces

    To set the runtime status of the <code>net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_redirects</code> kernel parameter, run the following command: <pre>$ sudo sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_redirects=0</pre> To mak...
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