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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000105-GPOS-00052

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Active Directory user accounts, including administrators, must be configured to require the use of a Common Access Card (CAC), Personal Identity Verification (PIV)-compliant hardware token, or Alternate Logon Token (ALT) for user authentication.

    Smart cards such as the CAC support a two-factor authentication technique. This provides a higher level of trust in the asserted identity than use of the username and password for authentication. ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000423-GPOS-00187

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 domain controllers must require LDAP access signing.

    Unsigned network traffic is susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks, where an intruder captures packets between the server and the client and modifies them before forwarding them to the client. In...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 domain controllers must be configured to allow reset of machine account passwords.

    Enabling this setting on all domain controllers in a domain prevents domain members from changing their computer account passwords. If these passwords are weak or compromised, the inability to chan...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Access this computer from the network user right must only be assigned to the Administrators, Authenticated Users, and Enterprise Domain Controllers groups on domain controllers.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. Accounts with the "Access this computer from the network" right may access resources on...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000324-GPOS-00125

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Add workstations to domain user right must only be assigned to the Administrators group on domain controllers.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. Accounts with the "Add workstations to domain" right may add computers to a domain. Thi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Allow log on through Remote Desktop Services user right must only be assigned to the Administrators group on domain controllers.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. Accounts with the "Allow log on through Remote Desktop Services" user right can access ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Deny access to this computer from the network user right on domain controllers must be configured to prevent unauthenticated access.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. The "Deny access to this computer from the network" user right defines the accounts tha...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Deny log on as a batch job user right on domain controllers must be configured to prevent unauthenticated access.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. The "Deny log on as a batch job" user right defines accounts that are prevented from lo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Deny log on as a service user right must be configured to include no accounts or groups (blank) on domain controllers.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. The "Deny log on as a service" user right defines accounts that are denied logon as a s...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Deny log on locally user right on domain controllers must be configured to prevent unauthenticated access.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. The "Deny log on locally" user right defines accounts that are prevented from logging o...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000297-GPOS-00115

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Deny log on through Remote Desktop Services user right on domain controllers must be configured to prevent unauthenticated access.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. The "Deny log on through Remote Desktop Services" user right defines the accounts that ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000324-GPOS-00125

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Enable computer and user accounts to be trusted for delegation user right must only be assigned to the Administrators group on domain controllers.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. The "Enable computer and user accounts to be trusted for delegation" user right allows ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    Group
  • The password for the krbtgt account on a domain must be reset at least every 180 days.

    The krbtgt account acts as a service account for the Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) service. The account and password are created when a domain is created and the password is typically not ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000324-GPOS-00125

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 must only allow administrators responsible for the member server or standalone or nondomain-joined system to have Administrator rights on the system.

    An account that does not have Administrator duties must not have Administrator rights. Such rights would allow the account to bypass or modify required security restrictions on that machine and mak...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000134-GPOS-00068

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 local administrator accounts must have their privileged token filtered to prevent elevated privileges from being used over the network on domain-joined member servers.

    A compromised local administrator account can provide means for an attacker to move laterally between domain systems. With User Account Control enabled, filtering the privileged token for local ad...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 local users on domain-joined member servers must not be enumerated.

    The username is one part of logon credentials that could be used to gain access to a system. Preventing the enumeration of users limits this information to authorized personnel.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000379-GPOS-00164

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 must restrict unauthenticated Remote Procedure Call (RPC) clients from connecting to the RPC server on domain-joined member servers and standalone or nondomain-joined systems.

    Unauthenticated RPC clients may allow anonymous access to sensitive information. Configuring RPC to restrict unauthenticated RPC clients from connecting to the RPC server will prevent anonymous con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 must limit the caching of logon credentials to four or less on domain-joined member servers.

    The default Windows configuration caches the last logon credentials for users who log on interactively to a system. This feature is provided for system availability reasons, such as the user's mach...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000324-GPOS-00125

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 must restrict remote calls to the Security Account Manager (SAM) to Administrators on domain-joined member servers and standalone or nondomain-joined systems.

    The Windows SAM stores users' passwords. Restricting Remote Procedure Call (RPC) connections to the SAM to Administrators helps protect those credentials.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Access this computer from the network user right must only be assigned to the Administrators and Authenticated Users groups on domain-joined member servers and standalone or nondomain-joined systems.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. Accounts with the "Access this computer from the network" user right may access resourc...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Deny access to this computer from the network user right on domain-joined member servers must be configured to prevent access from highly privileged domain accounts and local accounts and from unauthenticated access on all systems.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. The "Deny access to this computer from the network" user right defines the accounts tha...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Deny log on as a batch job user right on domain-joined member servers must be configured to prevent access from highly privileged domain accounts and from unauthenticated access on all systems.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. The "Deny log on as a batch job" user right defines accounts that are prevented from lo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Deny log on as a service user right on domain-joined member servers must be configured to prevent access from highly privileged domain accounts. No other groups or accounts must be assigned this right.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. The "Deny log on as a service" user right defines accounts that are denied logon as a s...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Deny log on locally user right on domain-joined member servers must be configured to prevent access from highly privileged domain accounts and from unauthenticated access on all systems.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. The "Deny log on locally" user right defines accounts that are prevented from logging o...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000297-GPOS-00115

    Group
  • Windows Server 2022 Deny log on through Remote Desktop Services user right on domain-joined member servers must be configured to prevent access from highly privileged domain accounts and all local accounts and from unauthenticated access on all systems.

    Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities. The "Deny log on through Remote Desktop Services" user right defines the accounts that ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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