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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051

    Group
  • The Photon operating system must not have duplicate User IDs (UIDs).

    To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be uniquely identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and provide for nonrepudiation.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000120-GPOS-00061

    Group
  • The Photon operating system must use mechanisms meeting the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for authentication to a cryptographic module.

    Unapproved mechanisms that are used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not verified and therefore cannot be relied upon to provide confidentiality or integrity, and DOD data may be ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000138-GPOS-00069

    Group
  • The Photon operating system must restrict access to the kernel message buffer.

    Restricting access to the kernel message buffer limits access only to root. This prevents attackers from gaining additional system information as a nonprivileged user.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000142-GPOS-00071

    Group
  • The Photon operating system must be configured to use TCP syncookies.

    A TCP SYN flood attack can cause a Denial of Service (DOS) by filling a system's TCP connection table with connections in the SYN_RCVD state. Syncookies can be used to track a connection when a sub...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000163-GPOS-00072

    Group
  • The Photon operating system must terminate idle Secure Shell (SSH) sessions after 15 minutes.

    Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take control of a management session enabled on the console or console port th...
    Rule Medium Severity

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