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Solaris 11 X86 Security Technical Implementation Guide


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Date Finding Count (218)
2021-05-28 CAT I (High): 14 CAT II (Med): 154 CAT III (Low): 50
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 III - Administrative Sensitive)

Finding ID Severity Title
V-216076 High X displays must not be exported to the world.
V-219994 High The audit system must alert the System Administrator (SA) if there is any type of audit failure.
V-219996 High The operating system must configure auditing to reduce the likelihood of storage capacity being exceeded.
V-216055 High The FTP daemon must not be installed unless required.
V-216205 High The operating system must be a supported release.
V-216056 High The TFTP service daemon must not be installed unless required.
V-216053 High The NIS package must not be installed.
V-216118 High Login must not be permitted with empty/null passwords for SSH.
V-216220 High SNMP communities, users, and passphrases must be changed from the default.
V-216038 High The operating system must alert designated organizational officials in the event of an audit processing failure.
V-216057 High The telnet service daemon must not be installed unless required.
V-216184 High There must be no user .rhosts files.
V-216128 High The operating system must not allow logins for users with blank passwords.
V-216122 High The system must not allow autologin capabilities from the GNOME desktop.
V-216138 Medium The system must set strict multihoming.
V-216077 Medium .Xauthority or X*.hosts (or equivalent) file(s) must be used to restrict access to the X server.
V-216075 Medium The .Xauthority files must not have extended ACLs.
V-216074 Medium All .Xauthority files must have mode 0600 or less permissive.
V-216073 Medium Any X Windows host must write .Xauthority files.
V-216072 Medium System start-up files must only execute programs owned by a privileged UID or an application.
V-216070 Medium All system start-up files must be owned by root.
V-216174 Medium The operating system must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect and restrict access to information on portable digital media.
V-216173 Medium The operating system must implement DoD-approved encryption to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions.
V-216079 Medium X Window System connections that are not required must be disabled.
V-216078 Medium The .Xauthority utility must only permit access to authorized hosts.
V-219988 Medium The audit system must support an audit reduction capability.
V-219989 Medium The audit system records must be able to be used by a report generation capability.
V-216048 Medium The operating system must protect audit tools from unauthorized modification.
V-216049 Medium The operating system must protect audit tools from unauthorized deletion.
V-216042 Medium The operating system must protect audit information from unauthorized access.
V-216041 Medium The operating system must shut down by default upon audit failure (unless availability is an overriding concern).
V-216047 Medium The operating system must protect audit tools from unauthorized access.
V-216045 Medium The System packages must be up to date with the most recent vendor updates and security fixes.
V-216163 Medium The operating system must prevent internal users from sending out packets which attempt to manipulate or spoof invalid IP addresses.
V-216162 Medium The operating system must terminate all sessions and network connections when non-local maintenance is completed.
V-216165 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-216164 Medium Wireless network adapters must be disabled.
V-216071 Medium All system start-up files must be group-owned by root, sys, or bin.
V-219991 Medium The audit system must be configured to audit all discretionary access control permission modifications.
V-219990 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-219993 Medium The audit system must alert the SA when the audit storage volume approaches its capacity.
V-219992 Medium The audit system must be configured to audit the loading and unloading of dynamic kernel modules.
V-219995 Medium The operating system must allocate audit record storage capacity.
V-219997 Medium The system must verify that package updates are digitally signed.
V-219999 Medium The operating system must employ automated mechanisms to prevent program execution in accordance with the organization-defined specifications.
V-219998 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-220014 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-220015 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-220012 Medium The operating system must protect the integrity of transmitted information.
V-220013 Medium The operating system must protect the audit records resulting from non-local accesses to privileged accounts and the execution of privileged functions.
V-216011 Medium The audit system must produce records containing sufficient information to establish the identity of any user/subject associated with the event.
V-216059 Medium The rpcbind service must be configured for local only services unless organizationally defined.
V-216206 Medium The system must implement non-executable program stacks.
V-216201 Medium The root account must be the only account with GID of 0.
V-216052 Medium The legacy remote network access utilities daemons must not be installed.
V-216114 Medium X11 forwarding for SSH must be disabled.
V-216116 Medium The rhost-based authentication for SSH must be disabled.
V-216117 Medium Direct root account login must not be permitted for SSH access.
V-216112 Medium Login services for serial ports must be disabled.
V-216113 Medium The nobody access for RPC encryption key storage service must be disabled.
V-220007 Medium The operating system must protect the confidentiality of transmitted information.
V-220006 Medium The operating system must maintain the integrity of information during aggregation, packaging, and transformation in preparation for transmission.
V-220005 Medium The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to recognize changes to information during transmission unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures.
V-220004 Medium The operating system must protect the integrity of transmitted information.
V-220003 Medium The operating system must employ FIPS-validate or NSA-approved cryptography to implement digital signatures.
V-220001 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-220000 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-220009 Medium The operating system must maintain the confidentiality of information during aggregation, packaging, and transformation in preparation for transmission.
V-220008 Medium The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information during transmission unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures.
V-216219 Medium The operating system must implement transaction recovery for transaction-based systems.
V-216216 Medium The kernel core dump data directory must have mode 0700 or less permissive.
V-216215 Medium The kernel core dump data directory must be group-owned by root.
V-216214 Medium The kernel core dump data directory must be owned by root.
V-216213 Medium Kernel core dumps must be disabled unless needed.
V-216212 Medium The centralized process core dump data directory must have mode 0700 or less permissive.
V-216211 Medium The centralized process core dump data directory must be group-owned by root, bin, or sys.
V-216210 Medium The centralized process core dump data directory must be owned by root.
V-216028 Medium The operating system must ensure unauthorized, security-relevant configuration changes detected are tracked.
V-216029 Medium The audit system must be configured to audit all administrative, privileged, and security actions.
V-216105 Medium The operating system must require individuals to be authenticated with an individual authenticator prior to using a group authenticator.
V-216103 Medium The system must prevent the use of dictionary words for passwords.
V-216102 Medium Graphical desktop environments provided by the system must automatically lock after 15 minutes of inactivity.
V-216101 Medium The system must require users to re-authenticate to unlock a graphical desktop environment.
V-216100 Medium The delay between login prompts following a failed login attempt must be at least 4 seconds.
V-216020 Medium Audit records must include where the events occurred.
V-216021 Medium Audit records must include the sources of the events that occurred.
V-216022 Medium Audit records must include the outcome (success or failure) of the events that occurred.
V-216023 Medium The audit system must be configured to audit file deletions.
V-216024 Medium The audit system must be configured to audit account creation.
V-216025 Medium The audit system must be configured to audit account modification.
V-216026 Medium The operating system must automatically audit account disabling actions.
V-216106 Medium The default umask for system and users must be 077.
V-216018 Medium Audit records must include what type of events occurred.
V-216199 Medium The operating system must have no unowned files.
V-216194 Medium Duplicate group names must not exist.
V-216195 Medium User .netrc files must not exist.
V-216196 Medium The system must not allow users to configure .forward files.
V-216197 Medium World-writable files must not exist.
V-216190 Medium Duplicate UIDs must not exist for multiple non-organizational users.
V-216191 Medium Duplicate Group IDs (GIDs) must not exist for multiple groups.
V-216192 Medium Reserved UIDs 0-99 must only be used by system accounts.
V-216193 Medium Duplicate user names must not exist.
V-216223 Medium Direct logins must not be permitted to shared, default, application, or utility accounts.
V-216221 Medium A file integrity baseline must be created, maintained, and reviewed on at least weekly to determine if unauthorized changes have been made to important system files located in the root file system.
V-216226 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-216227 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-216225 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-216228 Medium The operating system must prevent the execution of prohibited mobile code.
V-216135 Medium The system must not respond to broadcast ICMP echo requests.
V-216208 Medium Process core dumps must be disabled unless needed.
V-216209 Medium The system must be configured to store any process core dumps in a specific, centralized directory.
V-216204 Medium The operator must document all file system objects that have non-standard access control list settings.
V-216109 Medium User accounts must be locked after 35 days of inactivity.
V-216189 Medium Duplicate User IDs (UIDs) must not exist for users within the organization.
V-216185 Medium Groups assigned to users must exist in the /etc/group file.
V-216027 Medium The operating system must automatically audit account termination.
V-216183 Medium Permissions on user .netrc files must be 750 or less permissive.
V-216181 Medium Permissions on user home directories must be 750 or less permissive.
V-216180 Medium The sticky bit must be set on all world writable directories.
V-216086 Medium User passwords must be changed at least every 60 days.
V-216237 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-216129 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-216083 Medium TCP Wrappers must be enabled and configured per site policy to only allow access by approved hosts and services.
V-216080 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-216127 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-216188 Medium All home directories must be owned by the respective user assigned to it in /etc/passwd.
V-216121 Medium The use of FTP must be restricted.
V-216120 Medium Host-based authentication for login-based services must be disabled.
V-216088 Medium The operating system must enforce minimum password lifetime restrictions.
V-216050 Medium System packages must be configured with the vendor-provided files, permissions, and ownerships.
V-216089 Medium User passwords must be at least 15 characters in length.
V-216229 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-216182 Medium Permissions on user . (hidden) files must be 750 or less permissive.
V-233301 Medium The sshd server must bind the X11 forwarding server to the loopback address.
V-216019 Medium Audit records must include when (date and time) the events occurred.
V-216240 Medium The systems physical devices must not be assigned to non-global zones.
V-216243 Medium The operating system must monitor for unauthorized connections of mobile devices to organizational information systems.
V-216015 Medium The audit records must provide data for all auditable events defined at the organizational level for the organization-defined information system components.
V-216014 Medium The operating system must provide the capability to automatically process audit records for events of interest based upon selectable, event criteria.
V-216016 Medium The operating system must generate audit records for the selected list of auditable events as defined in DoD list of events.
V-216150 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-216231 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-216233 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-216232 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-216124 Medium Logins to the root account must be restricted to the system console only.
V-224672 Medium The operating system must prevent non-privileged users from circumventing malicious code protection capabilities.
V-216126 Medium The operating system must provide the capability for users to directly initiate session lock mechanisms.
V-216064 Medium All run control scripts must have mode 0755 or less permissive.
V-216065 Medium All run control scripts must have no extended ACLs.
V-216066 Medium Run control scripts executable search paths must contain only authorized paths.
V-216067 Medium Run control scripts library search paths must contain only authorized paths.
V-216060 Medium The VNC server package must not be installed unless required.
V-216123 Medium Unauthorized use of the at or cron capabilities must not be permitted.
V-216062 Medium The operating system must be configured to provide essential capabilities.
V-216143 Medium The system must disable network routing unless required.
V-216141 Medium The system must set maximum number of half-open TCP connections to 4096.
V-216068 Medium Run control scripts lists of preloaded libraries must contain only authorized paths.
V-216069 Medium Run control scripts must not execute world writable programs or scripts.
V-224673 Medium The operating system must identify potentially security-relevant error conditions.
V-216099 Medium The system must disable accounts after three consecutive unsuccessful login attempts.
V-216098 Medium Systems must employ cryptographic hashes for passwords using the SHA-2 family of algorithms or FIPS 140-2 approved successors.
V-216091 Medium The system must require at least eight characters be changed between the old and new passwords during a password change.
V-216090 Medium Users must not reuse the last 5 passwords.
V-216093 Medium The operating system must enforce password complexity requiring that at least one lowercase character is used.
V-216092 Medium The system must require passwords to contain at least one uppercase alphabetic character.
V-216095 Medium The system must require passwords to contain at least one special character.
V-216094 Medium The system must require passwords to contain at least one numeric character.
V-216097 Medium The system must not have accounts configured with blank or null passwords.
V-216178 Low The operating system must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of audit information.
V-216176 Low The operating system must protect the confidentiality and integrity of information at rest.
V-216130 Low The operating system must limit the number of concurrent sessions for each account to an organization-defined number of sessions.
V-216082 Low Systems services that are not required must be disabled.
V-216161 Low The FTP service must display the DoD approved system use notification message or banner before granting access to the system.
V-216160 Low The GNOME service must display the DoD approved system use notification message or banner before granting access to the system.
V-220010 Low The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to protect information in storage.
V-220011 Low The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information at rest unless otherwise protected by alternative physical measures.
V-216058 Low The UUCP service daemon must not be installed unless required.
V-216200 Low The operating system must have no files with extended attributes.
V-216115 Low Consecutive login attempts for SSH must be limited to 3.
V-216119 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-216034 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-216218 Low The system must require authentication before allowing modification of the boot devices or menus. Secure the GRUB Menu (Intel).
V-216217 Low System BIOS or system controllers supporting password protection must have administrator accounts/passwords configured, and no others. (Intel)
V-216108 Low The value mesg n must be configured as the default setting for all users.
V-216107 Low The default umask for FTP users must be 077.
V-216139 Low The system must disable ICMP redirect messages.
V-216198 Low All valid SUID/SGID files must be documented.
V-216224 Low The system must not have any unnecessary accounts.
V-216132 Low The system must not respond to ICMP timestamp requests.
V-216133 Low The system must not respond to ICMP broadcast timestamp requests.
V-216131 Low The system must disable directed broadcast packet forwarding.
V-216136 Low The system must not respond to multicast echo requests.
V-216137 Low The system must ignore ICMP redirect messages.
V-216134 Low The system must not respond to ICMP broadcast netmask requests.
V-216033 Low The audit system must be configured to audit failed attempts to access files and programs.
V-216030 Low The audit system must be configured to audit login, logout, and session initiation.
V-216035 Low The auditing system must not define a different auditing level for specific users.
V-216054 Low The pidgin IM client package must not be installed.
V-216187 Low All user accounts must be configured to use a home directory that exists.
V-216186 Low Users must have a valid home directory assignment.
V-216087 Low The operating system must automatically terminate temporary accounts within 72 hours.
V-216207 Low Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) must be enabled.
V-216081 Low Generic Security Services (GSS) must be disabled.
V-216125 Low The operating system, upon successful logon, must display to the user the date and time of the last logon (access).
V-216051 Low The finger daemon package must not be installed.
V-216202 Low The operating system must reveal error messages only to authorized personnel.
V-216158 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.
V-216159 Low The operating system must display the DoD approved system use notification message or banner for SSH connections.
V-216234 Low All manual editing of system-relevant files shall be done using the pfedit command, which logs changes made to the files.
V-216241 Low The audit system must identify in which zone an event occurred.
V-216242 Low The audit system must maintain a central audit trail for all zones.
V-216157 Low The system must prevent local applications from generating source-routed packets.
V-216239 Low The limitpriv zone option must be set to the vendor default or less permissive.
V-216238 Low The /etc/zones directory, and its contents, must have the vendor default owner, group, and permissions.
V-216142 Low The system must set maximum number of incoming connections to 1024.
V-216140 Low The system must disable TCP reverse IP source routing.
V-216144 Low The system must implement TCP Wrappers.
V-216096 Low The system must require passwords to contain no more than three consecutive repeating characters.