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Application Server Security Requirements Guide


Overview

Date Finding Count (130)
2018-01-08 CAT I (High): 0 CAT II (Med): 130 CAT III (Low): 0
STIG Description
The Application Server Security Requirements Guide (SRG) is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DoD) information systems. The requirements are derived from the NIST 800-53 and related documents. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via e-mail to the following address: disa.letterkenny.FSO.mbx.stig-customer-support-mailbox@mail.mil.

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Findings (MAC III - Administrative Sensitive)

Finding ID Severity Title
V-35329 Medium The application server must utilize FIPS 140-2 approved encryption modules when authenticating users and processes.
V-35328 Medium The application server must obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process to protect the information from possible exploitation/use by unauthorized individuals.
V-35325 Medium The application server must map the authenticated identity to the individual user or group account for PKI-based authentication.
V-35324 Medium Only authenticated system administrators or the designated PKI Sponsor for the application server must have access to the web servers private key.
V-35322 Medium The application server must perform RFC 5280-compliant certification path validation.
V-57543 Medium Application servers must use NIST-approved or NSA-approved key management technology and processes.
V-57541 Medium The application server must implement NSA-approved cryptography to protect classified information in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards.
V-57547 Medium The application server must identify prohibited mobile code.
V-57545 Medium The application server must use DoD- or CNSS-approved PKI Class 3 or Class 4 certificates.
V-57549 Medium The application server must generate a unique session identifier for each session.
V-57429 Medium The application server must provide an immediate real-time alert to authorized users of all log failure events requiring real-time alerts.
V-57425 Medium The application server must, at a minimum, transfer the logs of interconnected systems in real time, and transfer the logs of standalone systems weekly.
V-57427 Medium The application server must provide an immediate warning to the SA and ISSO, at a minimum, when allocated log record storage volume reaches 75% of maximum log record storage capacity.
V-57421 Medium The application server must allocate log record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined log record storage requirements.
V-57423 Medium The application server must off-load log records onto a different system or media from the system being logged.
V-35190 Medium The application server must shut down by default upon log failure (unless availability is an overriding concern).
V-35212 Medium The application server must protect log information from unauthorized deletion.
V-35217 Medium The application server must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of log information.
V-35216 Medium The application server must back up log records at least every seven days onto a different system or system component than the system or component being logged.
V-35215 Medium The application server must protect log tools from unauthorized deletion.
V-35214 Medium The application server must protect log tools from unauthorized modification.
V-35135 Medium The application server must protect against an individual (or process acting on behalf of an individual) falsely denying having performed organization-defined actions to be covered by non-repudiation.
V-35440 Medium The application server must only generate error messages that provide information necessary for corrective actions without revealing sensitive or potentially harmful information in error logs and administrative messages.
V-35139 Medium For application servers providing log record aggregation, the application server must compile log records from organization-defined information system components into a system-wide log trail that is time-correlated with an organization-defined level of tolerance for the relationship between time stamps of individual records in the log trail.
V-35445 Medium The application server must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of log tools.
V-57551 Medium The application server must only allow the use of DoD PKI-established certificate authorities for verification of the establishment of protected sessions.
V-57553 Medium The application server must fail to a secure state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.
V-57555 Medium The application server must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.
V-35234 Medium The application server must adhere to the principles of least functionality by providing only essential capabilities.
V-57559 Medium The application must implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of organization-defined information at rest on organization-defined information system components.
V-57419 Medium The application server must provide centralized management and configuration of the content to be captured in log records generated by all application components.
V-57411 Medium The application server must ensure remote sessions for accessing security functions and security-relevant information are logged.
V-57413 Medium The application server must control remote access methods.
V-57415 Medium The application server must provide the capability to immediately disconnect or disable remote access to the management interface.
V-57417 Medium The application server must generate log records containing the full-text recording of privileged commands or the individual identities of group account users.
V-57491 Medium The application server must enforce access restrictions associated with changes to application server configuration.
V-57493 Medium The application server must log the enforcement actions used to restrict access associated with changes to the application server.
V-35203 Medium The application server must use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for log records.
V-57495 Medium The application server must prevent the installation of patches, service packs, or application components without verification the software component has been digitally signed using a certificate that is recognized and approved by the organization.
V-35205 Medium The application server must protect log information from any type of unauthorized read access.
V-57497 Medium The application server must be capable of reverting to the last known good configuration in the event of failed installations and upgrades.
V-57499 Medium The application server must be configured in accordance with the security configuration settings based on DoD security configuration or implementation guidance, including STIGs, NSA configuration guides, CTOs, and DTMs.
V-35309 Medium The application server must disable identifiers (individuals, groups, roles, and devices) after 35 days of inactivity.
V-35738 Medium The application server must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources in accordance with applicable access control policies.
V-35300 Medium The application server must use multifactor authentication for network access to privileged accounts.
V-35302 Medium The application server must authenticate users individually prior to using a group authenticator.
V-35304 Medium The application server must provide security extensions to extend the SOAP protocol and provide secure authentication when accessing sensitive data.
V-35306 Medium The application server must uniquely identify all network-connected endpoint devices before establishing any connection.
V-35381 Medium The application server must ensure authentication of both client and server during the entire session.
V-57407 Medium The application server must associate organization-defined types of security attributes having organization-defined security attribute values with information in process.
V-57405 Medium The application server management interface must display an explicit logout message to users indicating the reliable termination of authenticated communications sessions.
V-35143 Medium The application server must generate log records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access subject privileges occur.
V-35142 Medium The application server must allow only the ISSM (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which logable events are to be logged.
V-35141 Medium The application server must generate log records for access and authentication events.
V-57401 Medium The application server must automatically terminate a user session after organization-defined conditions or trigger events requiring a session disconnect.
V-57565 Medium The application server must behave in a predictable and documented manner that reflects organizational and system objectives when invalid inputs are received.
V-35436 Medium The application server must check the validity of all data inputs to the management interface, except those specifically identified by the organization.
V-57567 Medium The application server must identify potentially security-relevant error conditions.
V-57561 Medium The application server must install security-relevant software updates within the time period directed by an authoritative source (e.g. IAVM, CTOs, DTMs, and STIGs).
V-57563 Medium The application server must remove organization-defined software components after updated versions have been installed.
V-35148 Medium The application server must initiate session logging upon startup.
V-57489 Medium The application server must provide the capability for authorized users to remotely view/hear, in real time, all content related to an established user session.
V-57487 Medium The application server must provide the capability for organization-identified individuals or roles to change the logging to be performed on all application components, based on all selectable event criteria within organization-defined time thresholds.
V-57485 Medium The application server must generate log records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events.
V-57483 Medium The application server must generate log records when concurrent logons from different workstations occur to the application server management interface.
V-57481 Medium The application must generate log records showing starting and ending times for user access to the application server management interface.
V-35150 Medium The application server must provide the capability for authorized users to capture, record, and log all content related to a user session.
V-35424 Medium The application server must provide a clustering capability.
V-35426 Medium The application server must employ cryptographic mechanisms to ensure confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest when stored off-line.
V-35159 Medium The application server must produce log records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.
V-35422 Medium The application server must generate a unique session identifier using a FIPS 140-2 approved random number generator.
V-35423 Medium The application server must be configured to perform complete application deployments.
V-35224 Medium The application server must limit privileges to change the software resident within software libraries.
V-35165 Medium The application server must produce log records containing sufficient information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.
V-35167 Medium The application server must produce log records containing sufficient information to establish where the events occurred.
V-35415 Medium The application server must invalidate session identifiers upon user logout or other session termination.
V-35213 Medium The application server must protect log tools from unauthorized access.
V-57509 Medium The application server must authenticate all endpoint devices before establishing a local, remote, and/or network connection using bidirectional authentication that is cryptographically based.
V-35317 Medium The application server must store only encrypted representations of passwords.
V-57507 Medium The application server must authenticate all network-connected endpoint devices before establishing any connection.
V-57505 Medium The application server must electronically verify Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials for access to the management interface.
V-57503 Medium The application server must accept Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials to access the management interface.
V-57501 Medium The application server must prohibit or restrict the use of nonsecure ports, protocols, modules, and/or services as defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments.
V-35421 Medium The application server must recognize only system-generated session identifiers.
V-35301 Medium The application server must use multifactor authentication for local access to privileged accounts.
V-35098 Medium The application server management interface must retain the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner on the screen until users acknowledge the usage conditions and take explicit actions to log on for further access.
V-57557 Medium The application server must implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized modification of organization-defined information at rest on organization-defined information system components.
V-35096 Medium The application server management interface must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the system.
V-35090 Medium The application server must implement cryptography mechanisms to protect the integrity of the remote access session.
V-35318 Medium The application server must transmit only encrypted representations of passwords.
V-35319 Medium The application server must utilize encryption when using LDAP for authentication.
V-35070 Medium The application server must limit the number of concurrent sessions to an organization-defined number for all accounts and/or account types.
V-35176 Medium The application server must produce log records that contain sufficient information to establish the outcome of events.
V-35170 Medium The application server must produce log records containing sufficient information to establish the sources of the events.
V-57519 Medium The application server must accept FICAM-approved third-party credentials.
V-57515 Medium The application server must accept Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials from other federal agencies to access the management interface.
V-57517 Medium The application server must electronically verify Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials from other federal agencies to access the management interface.
V-57511 Medium The application server, for PKI-based authentication, must implement a local cache of revocation data to support path discovery and validation in case of the inability to access revocation information via the network.
V-57513 Medium The application server must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after an organization-defined time period.
V-35089 Medium The application server must use encryption strength in accordance with the categorization of the management data during remote access management sessions.
V-57403 Medium The application server management interface must provide a logout capability for user-initiated communication session.
V-57443 Medium The application server must generate log records when successful/unsuccessful logon attempts occur.
V-57441 Medium The application server must generate log records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete privileges occur.
V-35772 Medium The application server must protect log information from unauthorized modification.
V-57445 Medium The application server must generate log records for privileged activities.
V-57529 Medium The application server must protect against or limit the effects of all types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing organization-defined security safeguards.
V-57399 Medium The application server must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.
V-57521 Medium The application server must conform to FICAM-issued profiles.
V-57397 Medium The application server must provide access logging that ensures users who are granted a privileged role (or roles) have their privileged activity logged.
V-57523 Medium The application server must require users to re-authenticate when organization-defined circumstances or situations require re-authentication.
V-57525 Medium The application server must require devices to re-authenticate when organization-defined circumstances or situations require re-authentication.
V-57527 Medium The application server must provide a log reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.
V-35191 Medium The application server must be configured to fail over to another system in the event of log subsystem failure.
V-35376 Medium The application server must separate hosted application functionality from application server management functionality.
V-57409 Medium The application server must associate organization-defined types of security attributes having organization-defined security attribute values with information in transmission.
V-35441 Medium The application server must restrict error messages only to authorized users.
V-57537 Medium The application server must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information during preparation for transmission.
V-35299 Medium The application server must use an enterprise user management system to uniquely identify and authenticate users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).
V-57535 Medium The application server must employ approved cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information and/or detect changes to information during transmission.
V-57533 Medium The application server must protect the confidentiality and integrity of transmitted information through the use of an approved TLS version.
V-57531 Medium The application server, when a MAC I system, must be in a high-availability (HA) cluster.
V-57539 Medium The application server must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information during reception.
V-57439 Medium The application server must generate log records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify privileges occur.
V-57437 Medium The application server must synchronize internal application server clocks to an authoritative time source when the time difference is greater than the organization-defined time period.
V-57435 Medium The application server must compare internal application server clocks at least every 24 hours with an authoritative time source.
V-57433 Medium The application server must record time stamps for log records that meet a granularity of one second for a minimum degree of precision.
V-57431 Medium The application server must record time stamps for log records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
V-35182 Medium The application server must generate log records containing information that establishes the identity of any individual or process associated with the event.
V-61351 Medium The application server must remove all export ciphers to protect the confidentiality and integrity of transmitted information.
V-35186 Medium The application server must alert the SA and ISSO, at a minimum, in the event of a log processing failure.