HP-UX 11.31 Security Technical Implementation Guide

The HP-UX 11.31 Security Technical Implementation Guide (V1 R19) has 525 STIG checks. New to STIG checklists? Read What is a STIG checklist?, CKL vs CKLB, and STIG vs SCAP benchmark.

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Version

V1 · R19

CurrentPublished Fri Jan 25 2019

The Network File System (NFS) share configuration file must have mode 0644 or less permissive.

HP-UX 11.31 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

The Network File System (NFS) share configuration file must have mode 0644 or less permissive.

Description

Discussion Text

Excessive permissions on the NFS share configuration file could allow unauthorized modification of the file, which could result in Denial-of-Service to authorized NFS shares and the creation of additional unauthorized shares.

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Objective

V-929

Rule

SV-35184r1_rule

Severity

low

Rule Version

GEN005760

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

# echo `ls -lL /etc/dfs/dfstab` | tr '\011' ' ' | tr -s  ' ' | sed -e 's/^[  \t]*//'  | cut -f 1,1 -d " "

If the file has a mode more permissive than 0644, this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

# chmod 0644 /etc/dfs/dfstab

STIG check 495 of 525 in the HP-UX 11.31 STIG checklist

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