DISA STIG AIX 7.x v3r1

Audit Details

Name: DISA STIG AIX 7.x v3r1

Updated: 11/22/2024

Authority: DISA STIG

Plugin: Unix

Revision: 1.0

Estimated Item Count: 284

File Details

Filename: DISA_STIG_AIX_7.x_v3r1.audit

Size: 583 kB

MD5: b2fc91ec02e34f1b92362b319e8fd5e0
SHA256: 0847e3177b489e87f8e83cb8609eba3d15ade3fa70030edf791c5226c0867c95

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
AIX7-00-001000 - AIX /etc/security/mkuser.sys.custom file must not exist unless it is needed for customizing a new user account.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001001 - AIX must automatically remove or disable temporary user accounts after 72 hours or sooner.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001003 - AIX must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid login attempts by a user before the user account is locked and released by an administrator.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001004 - AIX must limit the number of concurrent sessions to 10 for all accounts and/or account types.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001006 - If the AIX system is using LDAP for authentication or account information, the LDAP SSL, or TLS connection must require the server provide a certificate and this certificate must have a valid path to a trusted CA.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

AIX7-00-001007 - If AIX is using LDAP for authentication or account information, the /etc/ldap.conf file (or equivalent) must not contain passwords.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

AIX7-00-001008 - All accounts on AIX system must have unique account names.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

AIX7-00-001009 - All accounts on AIX must be assigned unique User Identification Numbers (UIDs) and must authenticate organizational and non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of these users).

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

AIX7-00-001010 - The AIX SYSTEM attribute must not be set to NONE for any account.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

AIX7-00-001011 - Direct logins to the AIX system must not be permitted to shared accounts, default accounts, application accounts, and utility accounts.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

AIX7-00-001012 - AIX must use the SSH server to implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged and non-privileged accounts.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

AIX7-00-001014 - The AIX system must automatically remove or disable emergency accounts after the crisis is resolved or 72 hours.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001015 - The shipped /etc/security/mkuser.sys file on AIX must not be customized directly.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001016 - The regular users default primary group must be staff (or equivalent) on AIX.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001018 - All system files, programs, and directories must be owned by a system account.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001019 - AIX device files and directories must only be writable by users with a system account or as configured by the vendor.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001025 - AIX must configure the ttys value for all interactive users.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

AIX7-00-001028 - AIX must provide the lock command to let users retain their session lock until users are reauthenticated.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001029 - AIX must provide xlock command in the CDE environment to let users retain their sessions lock until users are reauthenticated.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001030 - AIX system must prevent the root account from directly logging in except from the system console.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001031 - All AIX public directories must be owned by root or an application account.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001032 - AIX administrative accounts must not run a web browser, except as needed for local service administration.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001033 - AIX default system accounts (with the exception of root) must not be listed in the cron.allow file or must be included in the cron.deny file, if cron.allow does not exist.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001034 - The AIX root account must not have world-writable directories in its executable search path.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001035 - The Group Identifiers (GIDs) reserved for AIX system accounts must not be assigned to non-system accounts as their primary group GID.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001036 - UIDs reserved for system accounts must not be assigned to non-system accounts on AIX systems.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001037 - The AIX root accounts list of preloaded libraries must be empty.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001038 - AIX must not have accounts configured with blank or null passwords.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001039 - The AIX root accounts home directory (other than /) must have mode 0700.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001040 - The AIX root accounts home directory must not have an extended ACL.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001041 - AIX must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting local or remote login access to the system.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001042 - The Department of Defense (DoD) login banner must be displayed immediately prior to, or as part of, graphical desktop environment login prompts on AIX.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001043 - The Department of Defense (DoD) login banner must be displayed during SSH, sftp, and scp login sessions on AIX.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001044 - Any publically accessible connection to AIX operating system must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the system.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001045 - IF LDAP is used, AIX LDAP client must use SSL to authenticate with LDAP server.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

AIX7-00-001046 - If LDAP authentication is required, AIX must setup LDAP client to refresh user and group caches less than a day.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

AIX7-00-001047 - The AIX /etc/passwd, /etc/security/passwd, and/or /etc/group files must not contain a plus (+) without defining entries for NIS+ netgroups or LDAP netgroups.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001048 - AIX must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

AIX7-00-001053 - AIX must provide time synchronization applications that can synchronize the system clock to external time sources at least every 24 hours.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

AIX7-00-001055 - All AIX NFS anonymous UIDs and GIDs must be configured to values without permissions.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001056 - AIX nosuid option must be enabled on all NFS client mounts.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

AIX7-00-001100 - AIX must be configured to allow users to directly initiate a session lock for all connection types.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001101 - AIX CDE must conceal, via the session lock, information previously visible on the display with a publicly viewable image.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001102 - AIX must employ strong authenticators in the establishment of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions.

MAINTENANCE

AIX7-00-001104 - If LDAP authentication is required on AIX, SSL must be used between LDAP clients and the LDAP servers to protect the integrity of remote access sessions.

ACCESS CONTROL

AIX7-00-001105 - AIX must only allow the use of DoD PKI-established certificate authorities for verification of the establishment of protected sessions.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

AIX7-00-001108 - AIX must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography for the following: to provision digital signatures, to generate cryptographic hashes, and to protect unclassified information requiring confidentiality and cryptographic protection in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

AIX7-00-001120 - AIX must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one upper-case character be used.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

AIX7-00-001121 - AIX must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lower-case character be used.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

AIX7-00-001122 - AIX must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric character be used.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION