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V-253420CAT II — Medium severitySV-253420r1051055_rule

The Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service must not store RunAs credentials.

Rule version WN11-CC-000355 · STIG v2 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

Storage of administrative credentials could allow unauthorized access. Disallowing the storage of RunAs credentials for Windows Remote Management will prevent them from being used with plug-ins.

Check

If the following registry value does not exist or is not configured as specified, this is a finding:

Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Registry Path: \SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WinRM\Service\

Value Name: DisableRunAs

Value Type: REG_DWORD Value: 1

Fix

Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Windows Components >> Windows Remote Management (WinRM) >> WinRM Service >> "Disallow WinRM from storing RunAs credentials" to "Enabled".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-253420
Group title
SRG-OS-000373-GPOS-00156
Rule ID
SV-253420r1051055_rule
Check ID
C-56873r829342_chk
Fix ID
F-56823r829343_fix