74.19 (L1) Ensure 'Increase Scheduling Priority' is set to 'Administrators, Window Manager\Window Manager Group'

Information

This policy setting determines whether users can increase the base priority class of a process. (It is not a privileged operation to increase relative priority within a priority class.) This user right is not required by administrative tools that are supplied with the operating system but might be required by software development tools.

The recommended state for this setting is: Administrators, Window Manager\Window Manager Group

A user who is assigned this user right could increase the scheduling priority of a process to Real-Time, which would leave little processing time for all other processes and could lead to a DoS condition.

Solution

To establish the recommended configuration via configuration profiles, set the following Settings Catalog path to Administrators, Window Manager\Window Manager Group

User Rights\Increase scheduling priority

Note: Include only one User or Group per line in the Settings Catalog configuration screen.

Impact:

None - this is the default behavior.

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/16853