SV-278182r1182290: Windows Server 2025 must restrict remote calls to the Security Account Manager (SAM) to Administrators on domain-joined member servers and stand-alone or nondomain-joined systems. | Microsoft Windows Server 2025 STIG SCAP Benchmark

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

Windows Server 2025 must restrict remote calls to the Security Account Manager (SAM) to Administrators on domain-joined member servers and stand-alone or nondomain-joined systems.

Description

Discussion Text

The Windows SAM stores users' passwords. Restricting Remote Procedure Call (RPC) connections to the SAM to Administrators helps protect those credentials.

How this relates to the STIG checklist: STIG vs SCAP benchmark.

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Not mappedCCI-002235

References

DPMS Target Microsoft Windows Server 2025 DISA DPMS Target Microsoft Windows Server 2025 5719

SCC Automation Reference

The reconstructed evaluation script behind this rule's OVAL check(s) — every module a compound check combines, with this rule's own concrete values and DISA's SCC tool's real per-module mechanism curated from static teardown of SCC releases.

# Windows PowerShell
# Reconstructed from oval:mil.disa.stig.windows2025:def:278182
# Windows Server 2025 must restrict remote calls to the Security Account Manager (SAM) to Administrators on domain-joined member servers and stand-alone or nondomain-joined systems.
# Per-module read mechanism curated from static teardown of DISA's SCC tool
# (SCAP Compliance Checker) -- see the SCC Automation Reference above.

# Allow Administrators group to make remote calls to SAM
# registry_object (registry_test)
function test_1 {
  return (((@{String='reg_sz';ExpandString='reg_expand_sz';Binary='reg_binary';DWord='reg_dword';MultiString='reg_multi_sz';QWord='reg_qword';None='reg_none'}[(Get-Item -Path 'Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa').GetValueKind('RestrictRemoteSAM').ToString()]) -eq 'reg_sz') -and (((Get-ItemProperty -Path 'Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa' -Name 'RestrictRemoteSAM' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) | Select-Object -ExpandProperty 'RestrictRemoteSAM') -eq 'O:BAG:BAD:(A;;RC;;;BA)'))
}

if (test_1) {
  Write-Output "PASS"
} else {
  Write-Output "FAIL"
}

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# OVAL Definition: oval:mil.disa.stig.windows2025:def:278182
if (!(Test-Path -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\RestrictRemoteSAM")) {exit 1} 
$regValue = (Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\RestrictRemoteSAM").RestrictRemoteSAM 
if ($regValue -ne "O:BAG:BAD:(A;;RC;;;BA)") {exit 1} 
exit 0

Remediation

Navigate to the policy Computer Configuration >> Windows Settings >> Security Settings >> Local Policies >> Security Options >> Network access: Restrict clients allowed to make remote calls to SAM. 

Select "Edit Security" to configure the "Security descriptor:".

Add "Administrators" in "Group or user names:" if it is not already listed (this is the default).

Select "Administrators" in "Group or user names:".

Select "Allow" for "Remote Access" in "Permissions for "Administrators".

Click "OK".

The "Security descriptor:" must be populated with "O:BAG:BAD:(A;;RC;;;BA) for the policy to be enforced.