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II - Mission Support Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000142-NDM-000245

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  • The Juniper SRX Services Gateway must ensure access to start a UNIX-level shell is restricted to only the root account.

    Restricting the privilege to create a UNIX-level shell limits access to this powerful function. System administrators, regardless of their other permissions, will need to also know the root passwor...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000142-NDM-000245

    Group
  • The Juniper SRX Services Gateway must ensure TCP forwarding is disabled for SSH to prevent unauthorized access.

    Use this configuration option to prevent a user from creating an SSH tunnel over a CLI session to the Juniper SRX via SSH. This type of tunnel could be used to forward TCP traffic, bypassing any fi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000142-NDM-000245

    Group
  • The Juniper SRX Services Gateway must be configured with only one local user account to be used as the account of last resort.

    Without centralized management, credentials for some network devices will be forgotten, leading to delays in administration, which itself leads to delays in remediating production problems and in a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000156-NDM-000250

    Group
  • The Juniper SRX Services Gateway must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts.

    A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the application. Authentication sessions between the authenticator and the application validating the user credentials must not be ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000164-NDM-000252

    Group
  • For local accounts using password authentication (i.e., the root account and the account of last resort), the Juniper SRX Services Gateway must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

    Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. The shorter the password, the lower the number of possib...
    Rule Medium Severity

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