STIGUI
V-237922CAT II — Medium severitySV-237922r858978_rule

CA VM:Secure product ADMIN GLOBALS command must be restricted to systems programming personnel.

Rule version IBMZ-VM-000690 · STIG v2 · 2022-08-31

Discussion

Operating system management functionality includes functions necessary for administration and requires privileged user access. Allowing non-privileged users to access operating system management functionality capabilities increases the risk that non-privileged users may obtain elevated privileges.

Operating system management functionality includes functions necessary to administer console, network components, workstations, or servers and typically requires privileged user access.

The separation of user functionality from information system management functionality is either physical or logical and is accomplished by using different computers, different central processing units, different instances of the operating system, different network addresses, different TCP/UDP ports, virtualization techniques, combinations of these methods, or other methods, as appropriate.

An example of this type of separation is observed in web administrative interfaces that use separate authentication methods for users of any other information system resources. This may include isolating the administrative interface on a different security domain and with additional access controls.

Check

Examine the "AUTHORIZ" config file.

If authorization to "ADMIN GLOBALS" is granted to "SYS Admin", this is not a finding.

Fix

Configure grant statements in the "AUTHORIZ" file using the "ADMIN GLOBALS" command that list Sys Admins only.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-237922
Group title
SRG-OS-000132-GPOS-00067
Rule ID
SV-237922r858978_rule
Check ID
C-41132r858976_chk
Fix ID
F-41091r858977_fix