SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 v1r8

Released 2022-10-21


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SLES-15-010000The SUSE operating system must be a vendor-supported release.
SLES-15-010001The SUSE operating system must implement the Endpoint Security for Linux Threat Prevention tool.
SLES-15-010010Vendor-packaged SUSE operating system security patches and updates must be installed and up to date.
SLES-15-010020The SUSE operating system must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access via local console.
SLES-15-010030The SUSE operating system must not have the vsftpd package installed if not required for operational support.
SLES-15-010040The SUSE operating system must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access via SSH.
SLES-15-010050The SUSE operating system must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner until users acknowledge the usage conditions and take explicit actions to log on for further access to the local graphical user interface (GUI).
SLES-15-010060The SUSE operating system file /etc/gdm/banner must contain the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent banner text.
SLES-15-010080The SUSE operating system must display a banner before granting local or remote access to the system via a graphical user logon.
SLES-15-010090The SUSE operating system must display the approved Standard Mandatory DoD Notice before granting local or remote access to the system via a graphical user logon.
SLES-15-010100The SUSE operating system must be able to lock the graphical user interface (GUI).
SLES-15-010110The SUSE operating system must utilize vlock to allow for session locking.
SLES-15-010120The SUSE operating system must initiate a session lock after a 15-minute period of inactivity for the graphical user interface (GUI).
SLES-15-010130The SUSE operating system must initiate a session lock after a 15-minute period of inactivity.
SLES-15-010140The SUSE operating system must conceal, via the session lock, information previously visible on the display with a publicly viewable image in the graphical user interface (GUI).
SLES-15-010150The SUSE operating system must log SSH connection attempts and failures to the server.
SLES-15-010160The SUSE operating system must implement DoD-approved encryption to protect the confidentiality of SSH remote connections.
SLES-15-010170The SUSE operating system, for PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by constructing a certification path (which includes status information) to an accepted trust anchor.
SLES-15-010180The SUSE operating system must not have the telnet-server package installed.
SLES-15-010190SUSE operating systems with a basic input/output system (BIOS) must require authentication upon booting into single-user and maintenance modes.
SLES-15-010200SUSE operating systems with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) implemented must require authentication upon booting into single-user mode and maintenance.
SLES-15-010220The SUSE operating system must be configured to prohibit or restrict the use of functions, ports, protocols, and/or services as defined in the Ports, Protocols, and Services Management (PPSM) Category Assignments List (CAL) and vulnerability assessments.
SLES-15-010230The SUSE operating system must not have duplicate User IDs (UIDs) for interactive users.
SLES-15-010240The SUSE operating system must disable the file system automounter unless required.
SLES-15-010260The SUSE operating system must employ FIPS 140-2 approved cryptographic hashing algorithm for system authentication (login.defs).
SLES-15-010270The SUSE operating system SSH daemon must be configured to only use Message Authentication Codes (MACs) employing FIPS 140-2 approved cryptographic hash algorithms.
SLES-15-010280The SUSE operating system SSH daemon must be configured with a timeout interval.
SLES-15-010300The sticky bit must be set on all SUSE operating system world-writable directories.
SLES-15-010310The SUSE operating system must be configured to use TCP syncookies.
SLES-15-010320The SUSE operating system for all network connections associated with SSH traffic must immediately terminate at the end of the session or after 10 minutes of inactivity.
SLES-15-010330All SUSE operating system persistent disk partitions must implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure or modification of all information that requires at-rest protection.
SLES-15-010340The SUSE operating system must generate error messages that provide information necessary for corrective actions without revealing information that could be exploited by adversaries.
SLES-15-010350The SUSE operating system must prevent unauthorized users from accessing system error messages.
SLES-15-010351The SUSE operating system library files must have mode 0755 or less permissive.
SLES-15-010352The SUSE operating system library directories must have mode 0755 or less permissive.
SLES-15-010353The SUSE operating system library files must be owned by root.
SLES-15-010354The SUSE operating system library directories must be owned by root.
SLES-15-010355The SUSE operating system library files must be group-owned by root.
SLES-15-010356The SUSE operating system library directories must be group-owned by root.
SLES-15-010357The SUSE operating system must have system commands set to a mode of 0755 or less permissive.
SLES-15-010358The SUSE operating system must have directories that contain system commands set to a mode of 0755 or less permissive.
SLES-15-010359The SUSE operating system must have system commands owned by root.
SLES-15-010360The SUSE operating system must have directories that contain system commands owned by root.
SLES-15-010361The SUSE operating system must have system commands group-owned by root or a system account.
SLES-15-010362The SUSE operating system must have directories that contain system commands group-owned by root.
SLES-15-010370The SUSE operating system must have a firewall system installed to immediately disconnect or disable remote access to the whole operating system.
SLES-15-010380The SUSE operating system wireless network adapters must be disabled unless approved and documented.
SLES-15-010390SUSE operating system AppArmor tool must be configured to control whitelisted applications and user home directory access control.
SLES-15-010400The SUSE operating system clock must, for networked systems, be synchronized to an authoritative DoD time source at least every 24 hours.
SLES-15-010410The SUSE operating system must be configured to use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
SLES-15-010420Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) must verify the baseline SUSE operating system configuration at least weekly.
SLES-15-010430The SUSE operating system tool zypper must have gpgcheck enabled.
SLES-15-010450The SUSE operating system must reauthenticate users when changing authenticators, roles, or escalating privileges.
SLES-15-010460The SUSE operating system must have the packages required for multifactor authentication to be installed.
SLES-15-010470The SUSE operating system must implement certificate status checking for multifactor authentication.
SLES-15-010480The SUSE operating system must disable the USB mass storage kernel module.
SLES-15-010490If Network Security Services (NSS) is being used by the SUSE operating system it must prohibit the use of cached authentications after one day.
SLES-15-010500The SUSE operating system must configure the Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) to prohibit the use of cached offline authentications after one day.
SLES-15-010510FIPS 140-2 mode must be enabled on the SUSE operating system.
SLES-15-010530All networked SUSE operating systems must have and implement SSH to protect the confidentiality and integrity of transmitted and received information, as well as information during preparation for transmission.
SLES-15-010540The SUSE operating system must implement kptr-restrict to prevent the leaking of internal kernel addresses.
SLES-15-010550Address space layout randomization (ASLR) must be implemented by the SUSE operating system to protect memory from unauthorized code execution.
SLES-15-010560The SUSE operating system must remove all outdated software components after updated versions have been installed.
SLES-15-010570The SUSE operating system must notify the System Administrator (SA) when Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) discovers anomalies in the operation of any security functions.
SLES-15-010580The SUSE operating system must off-load rsyslog messages for networked systems in real time and off-load standalone systems at least weekly.
SLES-15-020000The SUSE operating system must provision temporary accounts with an expiration date for 72 hours.
SLES-15-020010The SUSE operating system must lock an account after three consecutive invalid access attempts.
SLES-15-020020The SUSE operating system must limit the number of concurrent sessions to 10 for all accounts and/or account types.
SLES-15-020030The SUSE operating system must implement multifactor authentication for access to privileged accounts via pluggable authentication modules (PAM).
SLES-15-020040The SUSE operating system must deny direct logons to the root account using remote access via SSH.
SLES-15-020050The SUSE operating system must disable account identifiers (individuals, groups, roles, and devices) after 35 days of inactivity after password expiration.
SLES-15-020060The SUSE operating system must never automatically remove or disable emergency administrator accounts.
SLES-15-020080The SUSE operating system must display the date and time of the last successful account logon upon logon.
SLES-15-020090The SUSE operating system must not have unnecessary accounts.
SLES-15-020091The SUSE operating system must not have unnecessary account capabilities.
SLES-15-020099The SUSE operating system must specify the default "include" directory for the /etc/sudoers file.
SLES-15-020100The SUSE operating system root account must be the only account with unrestricted access to the system.
SLES-15-020101The SUSE operating system must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.
SLES-15-020102The SUSE operating system must require re-authentication when using the "sudo" command.
SLES-15-020103The SUSE operating system must use the invoking user's password for privilege escalation when using "sudo".
SLES-15-020104The SUSE operating system must not be configured to bypass password requirements for privilege escalation.
SLES-15-020110All SUSE operating system local interactive user accounts, upon creation, must be assigned a home directory.
SLES-15-020120The SUSE operating system must display the date and time of the last successful account logon upon an SSH logon.
SLES-15-020130The SUSE operating system must enforce passwords that contain at least one uppercase character.
SLES-15-020140The SUSE operating system must enforce passwords that contain at least one lowercase character.
SLES-15-020150The SUSE operating system must enforce passwords that contain at least one numeric character.
SLES-15-020160The SUSE operating system must require the change of at least eight of the total number of characters when passwords are changed.
SLES-15-020170The SUSE operating system must configure the Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) to only store encrypted representations of passwords.
SLES-15-020180The SUSE operating system must employ FIPS 140-2-approved cryptographic hashing algorithms for all stored passwords.
SLES-15-020181The SUSE operating system must not have accounts configured with blank or null passwords.
SLES-15-020190The SUSE operating system must employ FIPS 140-2-approved cryptographic hashing algorithms for all stored passwords.
SLES-15-020200The SUSE operating system must be configured to create or update passwords with a minimum lifetime of 24 hours (one day).
SLES-15-020210The SUSE operating system must employ user passwords with a minimum lifetime of 24 hours (one day).
SLES-15-020220The SUSE operating system must be configured to create or update passwords with a maximum lifetime of 60 days.
SLES-15-020230The SUSE operating system must employ user passwords with a maximum lifetime of 60 days.
SLES-15-020240The SUSE operating system must employ a password history file.
SLES-15-020250The SUSE operating system must not allow passwords to be reused for a minimum of five generations.
SLES-15-020260The SUSE operating system must employ passwords with a minimum of 15 characters.
SLES-15-020270The SUSE operating system must enforce passwords that contain at least one special character.
SLES-15-020290The SUSE operating system must prevent the use of dictionary words for passwords.
SLES-15-020300The SUSE operating system must not be configured to allow blank or null passwords.
SLES-15-030000The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /etc/passwd.
SLES-15-030010The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /etc/group.
SLES-15-030020The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /etc/shadow.
SLES-15-030030The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /etc/security/opasswd.
SLES-15-030040The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /etc/gshadow.
SLES-15-030050SUSE operating system audit records must contain information to establish what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events.
SLES-15-030060The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the ssh-keysign command.
SLES-15-030070The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the passwd command.
SLES-15-030080The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the gpasswd command.
SLES-15-030090The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the newgrp command.
SLES-15-030100The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for a uses of the chsh command.
SLES-15-030110The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the unix_chkpwd or unix2_chkpwd commands.
SLES-15-030120The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the chage command.
SLES-15-030130The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the crontab command.
SLES-15-030140The SUSE operating system must audit all uses of the sudoers file and all files in the /etc/sudoers.d/ directory.
SLES-15-030150The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the creat, open, openat, open_by_handle_at, truncate, and ftruncate system calls.
SLES-15-030190The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the setxattr, fsetxattr, lsetxattr, removexattr, fremovexattr, and lremovexattr system calls.
SLES-15-030250The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the chown, fchown, fchownat, and lchown system calls.
SLES-15-030290The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the chmod, fchmod, and fchmodat system calls.
SLES-15-030330The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the sudoedit command.
SLES-15-030340The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the chfn command.
SLES-15-030350The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the mount system call.
SLES-15-030360The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the umount system call.
SLES-15-030370The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the ssh-agent command.
SLES-15-030380The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the insmod command.
SLES-15-030390The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the rmmod command.
SLES-15-030400The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the modprobe command.
SLES-15-030410The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the kmod command.
SLES-15-030420The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the chmod command.
SLES-15-030430The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the setfacl command.
SLES-15-030440The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the chacl command.
SLES-15-030450The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the chcon command.
SLES-15-030460The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the rm command.
SLES-15-030470The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all modifications to the tallylog file must generate an audit record.
SLES-15-030480The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all modifications to the lastlog file.
SLES-15-030490The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the passmass command.
SLES-15-030500The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the usermod command.
SLES-15-030510The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the pam_timestamp_check command.
SLES-15-030520The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the delete_module system call.
SLES-15-030530The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the init_module and finit_module system calls.
SLES-15-030550The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the su command.
SLES-15-030560The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the sudo command.
SLES-15-030570The Information System Security Officer (ISSO) and System Administrator (SA), at a minimum, must be alerted of a SUSE operating system audit processing failure event.
SLES-15-030580The Information System Security Officer (ISSO) and System Administrator (SA), at a minimum, must have mail aliases to be notified of a SUSE operating system audit processing failure.
SLES-15-030590The SUSE operating system audit system must take appropriate action when the audit storage volume is full.
SLES-15-030600The SUSE operating system must protect audit rules from unauthorized modification.
SLES-15-030620The SUSE operating system audit tools must have the proper permissions configured to protect against unauthorized access.
SLES-15-030630The SUSE operating system file integrity tool must be configured to protect the integrity of the audit tools.
SLES-15-030640The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the privileged functions.
SLES-15-030650The SUSE operating system must have the auditing package installed.
SLES-15-030660The SUSE operating system must allocate audit record storage capacity to store at least one week of audit records when audit records are not immediately sent to a central audit record storage facility.
SLES-15-030670The audit-audispd-plugins must be installed on the SUSE operating system.
SLES-15-030680The SUSE operating system audit event multiplexor must be configured to use Kerberos.
SLES-15-030690Audispd must off-load audit records onto a different system or media from the SUSE operating system being audited.
SLES-15-030700The SUSE operating system auditd service must notify the System Administrator (SA) and Information System Security Officer (ISSO) immediately when audit storage capacity is 75 percent full.
SLES-15-030740The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the unlink, unlinkat, rename, renameat, and rmdir system calls.
SLES-15-030760The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for the /run/utmp file.
SLES-15-030770The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for the /var/log/wtmp file.
SLES-15-030780The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for the /var/log/btmp file.
SLES-15-030790The SUSE operating system must off-load audit records onto a different system or media from the system being audited.
SLES-15-030800Audispd must take appropriate action when the SUSE operating system audit storage is full.
SLES-15-030810The SUSE operating system must use a separate file system for the system audit data path.
SLES-15-030820The SUSE operating system must not disable syscall auditing.
SLES-15-040000The SUSE operating system must enforce a delay of at least four seconds between logon prompts following a failed logon attempt.
SLES-15-040010The SUSE operating system must enforce a delay of at least four seconds between logon prompts following a failed logon attempt.
SLES-15-040020There must be no .shosts files on the SUSE operating system.
SLES-15-040030There must be no shosts.equiv files on the SUSE operating system.
SLES-15-040040The SUSE operating system file integrity tool must be configured to verify Access Control Lists (ACLs).
SLES-15-040050The SUSE operating system file integrity tool must be configured to verify extended attributes.
SLES-15-040060The SUSE operating system must disable the x86 Ctrl-Alt-Delete key sequence.
SLES-15-040061The SUSE operating system must disable the x86 Ctrl-Alt-Delete key sequence for Graphical User Interfaces.
SLES-15-040062The SUSE operating system must disable the systemd Ctrl-Alt-Delete burst key sequence.
SLES-15-040070All SUSE operating system local interactive users must have a home directory assigned in the /etc/passwd file.
SLES-15-040080All SUSE operating system local interactive user home directories defined in the /etc/passwd file must exist.
SLES-15-040090All SUSE operating system local interactive user home directories must have mode 0750 or less permissive.
SLES-15-040100All SUSE operating system local interactive user home directories must be group-owned by the home directory owner's primary group.
SLES-15-040110All SUSE operating system local initialization files must have mode 0740 or less permissive.
SLES-15-040120All SUSE operating system local interactive user initialization files executable search paths must contain only paths that resolve to the users home directory.
SLES-15-040130All SUSE operating system local initialization files must not execute world-writable programs.
SLES-15-040140SUSE operating system file systems that contain user home directories must be mounted to prevent files with the setuid and setgid bit set from being executed.
SLES-15-040150SUSE operating system file systems that are used with removable media must be mounted to prevent files with the setuid and setgid bit set from being executed.
SLES-15-040160SUSE operating system file systems that are being imported via Network File System (NFS) must be mounted to prevent files with the setuid and setgid bit set from being executed.
SLES-15-040170SUSE operating system file systems that are being imported via Network File System (NFS) must be mounted to prevent binary files from being executed.
SLES-15-040180All SUSE operating system world-writable directories must be group-owned by root, sys, bin, or an application group.
SLES-15-040190SUSE operating system kernel core dumps must be disabled unless needed.
SLES-15-040200A separate file system must be used for SUSE operating system user home directories (such as /home or an equivalent).
SLES-15-040210The SUSE operating system must use a separate file system for /var.
SLES-15-040220The SUSE operating system must be configured to not overwrite Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) configuration on package changes.
SLES-15-040230The SUSE operating system SSH daemon must be configured to not allow authentication using known hosts authentication.
SLES-15-040240The SUSE operating system SSH daemon public host key files must have mode 0644 or less permissive.
SLES-15-040250The SUSE operating system SSH daemon private host key files must have mode 0600 or less permissive.
SLES-15-040260The SUSE operating system SSH daemon must perform strict mode checking of home directory configuration files.
SLES-15-040280The SUSE operating system SSH daemon must not allow compression or must only allow compression after successful authentication.
SLES-15-040290The SUSE operating system SSH daemon must disable forwarded remote X connections for interactive users, unless to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements.
SLES-15-040300The SUSE operating system must not forward Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) source-routed packets.
SLES-15-040310The SUSE operating system must not forward Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) source-routed packets.
SLES-15-040320The SUSE operating system must not forward Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) source-routed packets by default.
SLES-15-040321The SUSE operating system must not forward Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) source-routed packets by default.
SLES-15-040330The SUSE operating system must prevent Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages from being accepted.
SLES-15-040340The SUSE operating system must not allow interfaces to accept Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages by default.
SLES-15-040341The SUSE operating system must prevent Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages from being accepted.
SLES-15-040350The SUSE operating system must not allow interfaces to accept Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages by default.
SLES-15-040360The SUSE operating system must not allow interfaces to send Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages by default.
SLES-15-040370The SUSE operating system must not send Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirects.
SLES-15-040380The SUSE operating system must not be performing Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) packet forwarding unless the system is a router.
SLES-15-040381The SUSE operating system must not be performing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) packet forwarding unless the system is a router.
SLES-15-040382The SUSE operating system must not be performing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) packet forwarding by default unless the system is a router.
SLES-15-040390The SUSE operating system must not have network interfaces in promiscuous mode unless approved and documented.
SLES-15-040400All SUSE operating system files and directories must have a valid owner.
SLES-15-040410All SUSE operating system files and directories must have a valid group owner.
SLES-15-040420The SUSE operating system default permissions must be defined in such a way that all authenticated users can only read and modify their own files.
SLES-15-040430The SUSE operating system must not allow unattended or automatic logon via the graphical user interface (GUI).
SLES-15-040440The SUSE operating system must not allow unattended or automatic logon via SSH.