GEN005350 - Management Information Base (MIB) files must not have extended ACLs.

Information

The ability to read the MIB file could impart special knowledge to an intruder or malicious user about the ability to extract compromising information about the system or network.

Solution

Remove the extended ACL from the MIB file(s) and change extended attributes to disabled.

#acledit [mib file]

See Also

https://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_AIX_6-1_V1R14_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-6, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000225, Group-ID|V-22450, Rule-ID|SV-38818r1_rule, STIG-ID|GEN005350, Vuln-ID|V-22450

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 0ff213128f697856ea736b698d5504f1afc2a2912771172e7999fc810ef56c70