Title

The operating system must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the operating system. Authentication sessions between the authenticator and the operating system validating the user credentials must not be vulnerable to a replay attack. An authentication process resists replay attacks if it is impractical to achieve a successful authentication by recording and replaying a previous authentication message. A privileged account is any information system account with authorizations of a privileged user. Techniques used to address this include protocols using nonces (e.g., numbers generated for a specific one-time use) or challenges (e.g., TLS, WS_Security). Additional techniques include time-synchronous or challenge-response one-time authenticators.

Check Content

Verify the operating system implements replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts. If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the operating system to implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-203645r958494_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-203645

Group Title: SRG-OS-000112

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