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Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide


Overview

Date Finding Count (219)
2022-11-18 CAT I (High): 14 CAT II (Med): 156 CAT III (Low): 49
STIG Description
This Security Technical Implementation Guide is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DoD) information systems. The requirements are derived from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 and related documents. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via email to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.

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Findings (MAC I - Mission Critical Classified)

Finding ID Severity Title
V-216288 High The NIS package must not be installed.
V-216273 High The operating system must alert designated organizational officials in the event of an audit processing failure.
V-219968 High The operating system must configure auditing to reduce the likelihood of storage capacity being exceeded.
V-219966 High The audit system must alert the System Administrator (SA) if there is any type of audit failure.
V-216365 High The operating system must not allow logins for users with blank passwords.
V-216442 High The operating system must be a supported release.
V-216355 High Login must not be permitted with empty/null passwords for SSH.
V-216359 High The system must not allow autologin capabilities from the GNOME desktop.
V-216292 High The telnet service daemon must not be installed unless required.
V-216291 High The TFTP service daemon must not be installed unless required.
V-216290 High The FTP daemon must not be installed unless required.
V-216421 High There must be no user .rhosts files.
V-216456 High SNMP communities, users, and passphrases must be changed from the default.
V-216311 High X displays must not be exported to the world.
V-216305 Medium All system start-up files must be owned by root.
V-216304 Medium Run control scripts must not execute world writable programs or scripts.
V-216307 Medium System start-up files must only execute programs owned by a privileged UID or an application.
V-216306 Medium All system start-up files must be group-owned by root, sys, or bin.
V-216301 Medium Run control scripts executable search paths must contain only authorized paths.
V-216300 Medium All run control scripts must have no extended ACLs.
V-216303 Medium Run control scripts lists of preloaded libraries must contain only authorized paths.
V-216302 Medium Run control scripts library search paths must contain only authorized paths.
V-216309 Medium All .Xauthority files must have mode 0600 or less permissive.
V-216308 Medium Any X Windows host must write .Xauthority files.
V-216264 Medium The audit system must be configured to audit all administrative, privileged, and security actions.
V-216262 Medium The operating system must automatically audit account termination.
V-216263 Medium The operating system must ensure unauthorized, security-relevant configuration changes detected are tracked.
V-216260 Medium The audit system must be configured to audit account modification.
V-216261 Medium The operating system must automatically audit account disabling actions.
V-216387 Medium The boundary protection system (firewall) must be configured to deny network traffic by default and must allow network traffic by exception (i.e., deny all, permit by exception).
V-216380 Medium The system must disable network routing unless required.
V-216468 Medium The operating system must have malicious code protection mechanisms at system entry and exit points to detect and eradicate malicious code transported by electronic mail, electronic mail attachments, web accesses, removable media, or other common means.
V-216469 Medium The operating system must back up audit records at least every seven days onto a different system or system component than the system or component being audited.
V-216461 Medium The operating system must conduct backups of user-level information contained in the operating system per organization-defined frequency to conduct backups consistent with recovery time and recovery point objectives.
V-216462 Medium The operating system must conduct backups of system-level information contained in the information system per organization-defined frequency to conduct backups that are consistent with recovery time and recovery point objectives.
V-216463 Medium The operating system must conduct backups of operating system documentation including security-related documentation per organization-defined frequency to conduct backups that is consistent with recovery time and recovery point objectives.
V-216464 Medium The operating system must prevent the execution of prohibited mobile code.
V-216465 Medium The operating system must employ PKI solutions at workstations, servers, or mobile computing devices on the network to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revoke digital certificates.
V-219980 Medium The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information during transmission unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures.
V-216467 Medium The operating system must employ malicious code protection mechanisms at workstations, servers, or mobile computing devices on the network to detect and eradicate malicious code transported by electronic mail, electronic mail attachments, web accesses, removable media, or other common means.
V-216340 Medium The operating system must require individuals to be authenticated with an individual authenticator prior to using a group authenticator.
V-216277 Medium The operating system must protect audit information from unauthorized access.
V-216276 Medium The operating system must shut down by default upon audit failure (unless availability is an overriding concern).
V-216372 Medium The system must not respond to broadcast ICMP echo requests.
V-216375 Medium The system must set strict multihoming.
V-216378 Medium The system must set maximum number of half-open TCP connections to 4096.
V-216479 Medium The operating system must monitor for unauthorized connections of mobile devices to organizational information systems.
V-216473 Medium The operating system must manage excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding types of denial of service attacks.
V-216476 Medium The systems physical devices must not be assigned to non-global zones.
V-219969 Medium The system must verify that package updates are digitally signed.
V-219964 Medium The audit system must be configured to audit the loading and unloading of dynamic kernel modules.
V-219965 Medium The audit system must alert the SA when the audit storage volume approaches its capacity.
V-219967 Medium The operating system must allocate audit record storage capacity.
V-219960 Medium The audit system records must be able to be used by a report generation capability.
V-219961 Medium The audit records must provide data for all auditable events defined at the organizational level for the organization-defined information system components.
V-219962 Medium The operating system must support the capability to compile audit records from multiple components within the system into a system-wide (logical or physical) audit trail that is time-correlated to within organization-defined level of tolerance.
V-219963 Medium The audit system must be configured to audit all discretionary access control permission modifications.
V-216363 Medium The operating system must provide the capability for users to directly initiate session lock mechanisms.
V-216361 Medium Logins to the root account must be restricted to the system console only.
V-216360 Medium Unauthorized use of the at or cron capabilities must not be permitted.
V-216366 Medium The operating system must prevent remote devices that have established a non-remote connection with the system from communicating outside of the communication path with resources in external networks.
V-216364 Medium The operating system session lock mechanism, when activated on a device with a display screen, must place a publicly viewable pattern onto the associated display, hiding what was previously visible on the screen.
V-216284 Medium The operating system must protect audit tools from unauthorized deletion.
V-216285 Medium System packages must be configured with the vendor-provided files, permissions, and ownerships.
V-216287 Medium The legacy remote network access utilities daemons must not be installed.
V-216280 Medium The System packages must be up to date with the most recent vendor updates and security fixes.
V-216282 Medium The operating system must protect audit tools from unauthorized access.
V-216283 Medium The operating system must protect audit tools from unauthorized modification.
V-216446 Medium The system must be configured to store any process core dumps in a specific, centralized directory.
V-216447 Medium The centralized process core dump data directory must be owned by root.
V-216445 Medium Process core dumps must be disabled unless needed.
V-216443 Medium The system must implement non-executable program stacks.
V-216441 Medium The operator must document all file system objects that have non-standard access control list settings.
V-219979 Medium The operating system must protect the confidentiality of transmitted information.
V-219978 Medium The operating system must maintain the integrity of information during aggregation, packaging, and transformation in preparation for transmission.
V-219977 Medium The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to recognize changes to information during transmission unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures.
V-219976 Medium The operating system must protect the integrity of transmitted information.
V-219975 Medium The operating system must employ FIPS-validate or NSA-approved cryptography to implement digital signatures.
V-219973 Medium The system must restrict the ability of users to assume excessive privileges to members of a defined group and prevent unauthorized users from accessing administrative tools.
V-219972 Medium The operating system must disable information system functionality that provides the capability for automatic execution of code on mobile devices without user direction.
V-219971 Medium The operating system must employ automated mechanisms to prevent program execution in accordance with the organization-defined specifications.
V-219970 Medium The operating system must employ automated mechanisms, per organization-defined frequency, to detect the addition of unauthorized components/devices into the operating system.
V-216357 Medium Host-based authentication for login-based services must be disabled.
V-216354 Medium Direct root account login must not be permitted for SSH access.
V-216353 Medium The rhost-based authentication for SSH must be disabled.
V-216350 Medium The nobody access for RPC encryption key storage service must be disabled.
V-216351 Medium X11 forwarding for SSH must be disabled.
V-216358 Medium The use of FTP must be restricted.
V-216297 Medium The operating system must be configured to provide essential capabilities.
V-216450 Medium Kernel core dumps must be disabled unless needed.
V-216453 Medium The kernel core dump data directory must have mode 0700 or less permissive.
V-216294 Medium The rpcbind service must be configured for local only services unless organizationally defined.
V-216459 Medium Direct logins must not be permitted to shared, default, application, or utility accounts.
V-216251 Medium The operating system must generate audit records for the selected list of auditable events as defined in DoD list of events.
V-216299 Medium All run control scripts must have mode 0755 or less permissive.
V-219986 Medium The operating system must synchronize internal information system clocks with a server that is synchronized to one of the redundant United States Naval Observatory (USNO) time servers or a time server designated for the appropriate DoD network (NIPRNet/SIPRNet), and/or the Global Positioning System (GPS).
V-219987 Medium The operating system must verify the correct operation of security functions in accordance with organization-defined conditions and in accordance with organization-defined frequency (if periodic verification).
V-216257 Medium Audit records must include the outcome (success or failure) of the events that occurred.
V-219984 Medium The operating system must protect the integrity of transmitted information.
V-216256 Medium Audit records must include the sources of the events that occurred.
V-216349 Medium Access to a logical domain console must be restricted to authorized users.
V-216348 Medium Access to a domain console via telnet must be restricted to the local host.
V-219985 Medium The operating system must protect the audit records resulting from non-local accesses to privileged accounts and the execution of privileged functions.
V-216341 Medium The default umask for system and users must be 077.
V-216344 Medium User accounts must be locked after 35 days of inactivity.
V-216347 Medium Login services for serial ports must be disabled.
V-219981 Medium The operating system must maintain the confidentiality of information during aggregation, packaging, and transformation in preparation for transmission.
V-216259 Medium The audit system must be configured to audit account creation.
V-216425 Medium All home directories must be owned by the respective user assigned to it in /etc/passwd.
V-216426 Medium Duplicate User IDs (UIDs) must not exist for users within the organization.
V-216427 Medium Duplicate UIDs must not exist for multiple non-organizational users.
V-216420 Medium Permissions on user .netrc files must be 750 or less permissive.
V-216422 Medium Groups assigned to users must exist in the /etc/group file.
V-216428 Medium Duplicate Group IDs (GIDs) must not exist for multiple groups.
V-216429 Medium Reserved UIDs 0-99 must only be used by system accounts.
V-216451 Medium The kernel core dump data directory must be owned by root.
V-216338 Medium The system must prevent the use of dictionary words for passwords.
V-216334 Medium The system must disable accounts after three consecutive unsuccessful login attempts.
V-216335 Medium The delay between login prompts following a failed login attempt must be at least 4 seconds.
V-216336 Medium The system must require users to re-authenticate to unlock a graphical desktop environment.
V-216337 Medium Graphical desktop environments provided by the system must automatically lock after 15 minutes of inactivity.
V-216330 Medium The system must require passwords to contain at least one special character.
V-216295 Medium The VNC server package must not be installed unless required.
V-216332 Medium The system must not have accounts configured with blank or null passwords.
V-216333 Medium Systems must employ cryptographic hashes for passwords using the SHA-2 family of algorithms or FIPS 140-2 approved successors.
V-216452 Medium The kernel core dump data directory must be group-owned by root.
V-216455 Medium The operating system must implement transaction recovery for transaction-based systems.
V-216436 Medium The operating system must have no unowned files.
V-216434 Medium World-writable files must not exist.
V-216433 Medium The system must not allow users to configure .forward files.
V-216432 Medium User .netrc files must not exist.
V-216431 Medium Duplicate group names must not exist.
V-216430 Medium Duplicate user names must not exist.
V-216438 Medium The root account must be the only account with GID of 0.
V-233300 Medium The sshd server must bind the X11 forwarding server to the loopback address.
V-216329 Medium The system must require passwords to contain at least one numeric character.
V-216328 Medium The operating system must enforce password complexity requiring that at least one lowercase character is used.
V-216327 Medium The system must require passwords to contain at least one uppercase alphabetic character.
V-216326 Medium The system must require at least eight characters be changed between the old and new passwords during a password change.
V-216325 Medium Users must not reuse the last 5 passwords.
V-216324 Medium User passwords must be at least 15 characters in length.
V-216323 Medium The operating system must enforce minimum password lifetime restrictions.
V-216321 Medium User passwords must be changed at least every 60 days.
V-216246 Medium The audit system must produce records containing sufficient information to establish the identity of any user/subject associated with the event.
V-216402 Medium The operating system must use mechanisms for authentication to a cryptographic module meeting the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for such authentication.
V-216249 Medium The operating system must provide the capability to automatically process audit records for events of interest based upon selectable, event criteria.
V-216400 Medium The operating system must prevent internal users from sending out packets which attempt to manipulate or spoof invalid IP addresses.
V-216401 Medium Wireless network adapters must be disabled.
V-216457 Medium A file integrity baseline must be created, maintained, and reviewed at least weekly to determine if unauthorized changes have been made to important system files located in the root file system.
V-224670 Medium The operating system must prevent non-privileged users from circumventing malicious code protection capabilities.
V-224671 Medium The operating system must identify potentially security-relevant error conditions.
V-216312 Medium .Xauthority or X*.hosts (or equivalent) file(s) must be used to restrict access to the X server.
V-216313 Medium The .Xauthority utility must only permit access to authorized hosts.
V-216310 Medium The .Xauthority files must not have extended ACLs.
V-216314 Medium X Window System connections that are not required must be disabled.
V-216315 Medium The graphical login service provides the capability of logging into the system using an X-Windows type interface from the console. If graphical login access for the console is required, the service must be in local-only mode.
V-219959 Medium The audit system must support an audit reduction capability.
V-216318 Medium TCP Wrappers must be enabled and configured per site policy to only allow access by approved hosts and services.
V-216253 Medium Audit records must include what type of events occurred.
V-216399 Medium The operating system must terminate all sessions and network connections when non-local maintenance is completed.
V-216419 Medium Permissions on user . (hidden) files must be 750 or less permissive.
V-216418 Medium Permissions on user home directories must be 750 or less permissive.
V-216255 Medium Audit records must include where the events occurred.
V-216254 Medium Audit records must include when (date and time) the events occurred.
V-216417 Medium The sticky bit must be set on all world writable directories.
V-216258 Medium The audit system must be configured to audit file deletions.
V-216411 Medium The operating system must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect and restrict access to information on portable digital media.
V-216410 Medium The operating system must implement DoD-approved encryption to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions.
V-216448 Medium The centralized process core dump data directory must be group-owned by root, bin, or sys.
V-216449 Medium The centralized process core dump data directory must have mode 0700 or less permissive.
V-216289 Low The pidgin IM client package must not be installed.
V-216265 Low The audit system must be configured to audit login, logout, and session initiation.
V-216381 Low The system must implement TCP Wrappers.
V-216268 Low The audit system must be configured to audit failed attempts to access files and programs.
V-216269 Low The operating system must protect against an individual falsely denying having performed a particular action. In order to do so the system must be configured to send audit records to a remote audit server.
V-216460 Low The system must not have any unnecessary accounts.
V-216270 Low The auditing system must not define a different auditing level for specific users.
V-216370 Low The system must not respond to ICMP broadcast timestamp requests.
V-216371 Low The system must not respond to ICMP broadcast netmask requests.
V-216373 Low The system must not respond to multicast echo requests.
V-216374 Low The system must ignore ICMP redirect messages.
V-216376 Low The system must disable ICMP redirect messages.
V-216377 Low The system must disable TCP reverse IP source routing.
V-216379 Low The system must set maximum number of incoming connections to 1024.
V-216478 Low The audit system must maintain a central audit trail for all zones.
V-216470 Low All manual editing of system-relevant files shall be done using the pfedit command, which logs changes made to the files.
V-216477 Low The audit system must identify in which zone an event occurred.
V-216475 Low The limitpriv zone option must be set to the vendor default or less permissive.
V-216474 Low The /etc/zones directory, and its contents, must have the vendor default owner, group, and permissions.
V-216362 Low The operating system, upon successful logon, must display to the user the date and time of the last logon (access).
V-216367 Low The operating system must limit the number of concurrent sessions for each account to an organization-defined number of sessions.
V-216369 Low The system must not respond to ICMP timestamp requests.
V-216368 Low The system must disable directed broadcast packet forwarding.
V-216286 Low The finger daemon package must not be installed.
V-216444 Low Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) must be enabled.
V-216356 Low The operating system must terminate the network connection associated with a communications session at the end of the session or after 10 minutes of inactivity.
V-216352 Low Consecutive login attempts for SSH must be limited to 3.
V-216293 Low The UUCP service daemon must not be installed unless required.
V-219982 Low The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to protect information in storage.
V-216343 Low The value mesg n must be configured as the default setting for all users.
V-216342 Low The default umask for FTP users must be 077.
V-219983 Low The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information at rest unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures.
V-216424 Low All user accounts must be configured to use a home directory that exists.
V-216423 Low Users must have a valid home directory assignment.
V-216396 Low The operating system must display the DoD approved system use notification message or banner for SSH connections.
V-216397 Low The GNOME service must display the DoD approved system use notification message or banner before granting access to the system.
V-216394 Low The system must prevent local applications from generating source-routed packets.
V-216454 Low The system must require passwords to change the boot device settings. (SPARC)
V-216437 Low The operating system must have no files with extended attributes.
V-216435 Low All valid SUID/SGID files must be documented.
V-216439 Low The operating system must reveal error messages only to authorized personnel.
V-216322 Low The operating system must automatically terminate temporary accounts within 72 hours.
V-216316 Low Generic Security Services (GSS) must be disabled.
V-216317 Low Systems services that are not required must be disabled.
V-216331 Low The system must require passwords to contain no more than three consecutive repeating characters.
V-216398 Low The FTP service must display the DoD approved system use notification message or banner before granting access to the system.
V-216415 Low The operating system must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of audit information.
V-216413 Low The operating system must protect the confidentiality and integrity of information at rest.
V-216395 Low The operating system must display the DoD approved system use notification message or banner before granting access to the system for general system logons.