Content 0.1.65

Important Highlights

• Introduce cui profile for OL9 (#9638)
• Remove Support for OVAL 5.10 (#9604)
• Rename account_passwords_pam_faillock_audit (#9462)
• CI ansible hardening and rename of existing Bash hardening (#9796)
• Update contributors list for v0.1.65 release (#9843)

New Rules and Profiles

• Add profile for SUSE SAP Public Cloud Images (#9571)
• Introduce cui profile for OL9 (#9638)
• Created SLES 12 PCI DSS 4.0 profile and added rules to it (#9729)
• Add new rules related to system banners - /etc/issue.net (#9733)
• add new rule logind_session_timeout (#9475)
• Pci dss shadow rule (#9756)

Updated Rules and Profiles

• Update chronyd_no_chronyc_network to align with RHEL9 STIG (#9505)
• Update rules for RHEL 9 STIG (#9512)
• Update chronyd_client_only to align with RHEL9 STIG (#9500)
• Update rules for RHEL 9 STIG (#9527)
• RHEL9 stig_gui: don't remove GUI (#9581)
• Remove RPM verify rules from RHEL 9 STIG (#9591)
• Rule updates wrt RHEL9 STIG (#9509)
• Clarify instructions for implementing SCCs (#9569)
• Added SLES_15/12 CCE codes related to rules in the group restict_at_c… (#9643)
• Add pci-dss rules (#9627)
• Two small corrections (#9644)
• Added 6 SLES 15/12 CCE codes to the rules sshd_... (#9669)
• Add PCI-DSS rules (#9645)
• CIS RHEL8 gnome related requirements (#9670)
• Add dconf_gnome_disable_user_list to the RHEL 9 STIG (#9677)
• RHEL 9 STIG Fix Up (#9676)
• Added CCE number for SLES_15 in the rule sshd_use_approved_ciphers (#9680)
• Added 4 SLES 15/12 codes to the rules group_unique_id/name (#9682)
• Add support for PCI DSS v3.2.1 for SLE12 (#9613)
• service_ntp_enabled: Fix description as service name is ntp (#9707)
• Fix issue introduced in commit 1ba11cb (#9692)
• remove ospp-mls.profile (#9710)
• Add pcidss Req-ids (#9705)
• Ubuntu 20.04: fix grub2 password related rules (#9708)
• Fix rsyslog_remote_tls Remediations (#9711)
• Added 2 SLES 15/12 CCE codes to the rule disable_prelink (#9706)
• Assign RHEL-07-010271 to account_emergency_expire_date. (#9717)
• Ubuntu 20.04 CIS Level1 profile: add package_pam_pwquality_installed (#9721)
• Add Ubuntu specific bash for ensure_rsyslog_log_file_configuration (#9719)
• install_smartcard_packages: Add Ubuntu specific remediation (#9720)
• Ubuntu 20.04: Make sure xatrr audit rules contains a check for root user (#9722)
• Added rules to PCI DSS 4.0 SLES 15 profile (#9716)
• Add pci-dss rules to SLE15 (#9728)
• Refactor firewalld_sshd_port_enabled rule (#9712)
• Added 4 rules to SLES 12/15 PCI DSS 4.0 profiles (#9735)
• Update SLE 15 SAP hardening profile (#9742)
• Update RHEL8 STIG to V1R8 (#9780)
• Update RHEL7 STIG to V3R9 (#9781)
• Align ClientAliveCountMax and ClientAliveInterval on RHEL8 STIG V1R8 (#9784)
• Removed wrong rule from hipaa.profile (#9840)
• Stabilization: Include warning regarding quota options in XFS (#9877)
• Stabilization: Update the sshd_set_keepalive regarding ClientAliveCountMax (#9868)

Removed Products

• Remove the VSEL Product (#9547)
• Remove the fuse6 product (#9544)
• Remove the Debian 9 Product (#9546)
• Remove the JRE product (#9545)

Changes in Remediations

• Move kernel_module_disabled use more genric RHEL in conditionals (#9450)
• Improve ansible remediation of accounts_umask_etc_login_defs (#9490)
• Add bash and ansible remediation for rsyslog_remote_tls (#9484)
• Fix rsyslog_remote_tls Remediations (#9711)
• Add Ubuntu specific bash for ensure_rsyslog_log_file_configuration (#9719)
• install_smartcard_packages: Add Ubuntu specific remediation (#9720)
• Fix config file and interpreter check control flow (#9695)
• Refactor firewalld_sshd_port_enabled rule (#9712)
• Dconf macros update to align them with OVAL expectation (#9751)
• rsyslog_files_permissions: Consider the last field in the config line the log file path (#9750)
• Fix nmcli bug (#9773)
• Align service_disabled template to service_enabled (#9806)
• Remove deprecated warn parameter from Ansible command module (#9807)
• CI ansible hardening and rename of existing Bash hardening (#9796)
• Stabilization: Make Ansible remediation less prone to fatal errors (#9911)

Changes in Checks

• Move kernel_module_disabled use more genric RHEL in conditionals (#9450)
• Update accounts_password template's OVAL (#9459)
• OCP4: Fix OCIL of machine_volume_encrypted (#9597)
• Clarify instructions for implementing SCCs (#9569)
• Remove jinja condition to make rule applicability to all products in Kerberos rules (#9412)
• Ubuntu 20.04: fix grub2 password related rules (#9708)
• Add Ubuntu specific bash for ensure_rsyslog_log_file_configuration (#9719)
• Refactor firewalld_sshd_port_enabled rule (#9712)
• Dconf macros update to align them with OVAL expectation (#9751)

Changes in the Infrastructure

• Remove superflous check of rule ID consistency (#9539)
• Add tests to auditd_lineinfile template (#9519)
• Generate XCCDF 1.2 directly (#9464)
• Add support for regulated fields (#9553)
• SRG Import/Export Uses Policy Specific Content (#9570)
• Add Git Mail Map (#9573)
• Remove ident_size for .py files from editorconfig (#9603)
• Make CodeClimate to use .editorconfig (#9630)
• Remove function drop_oval_definitions (#9629)
• Add mypy to CI (#9430)
• Remove shorthand.xml from the build process (#9548)
• Remove XCCDF 1.1 from enable_derivatives.py (#9654)
• Remove XCCDF 1.1 from profile tool (#9655)
• Remove unused import (#9656)
• Remove XCCDF 1.1 from ssg/xccdf.py (#9657)
• Remove Support for OVAL 5.10 (#9604)
• Import SRG content for RHEL9 (#9574)
• Don't use editorconfig to check for indentation (#9653)
• Remove get_fixgroup_for_type (#9661)
• Remove superfluous XML namespaces from HTML tables (#9662)
• Update sysctl template's OVAL and tests to align with STIG (#9458)
• Remove unused XSLT xccdf2table-profileanssirefs.xslt (#9659)
• CMake Improvements (#9646)
• Remove Travis CI (#9683)
• Remove comparison utilities (#9688)
• Create unit tests for ssg.id_translate (#9624)
• Add unit tests of XCCDF 1.2 elements (#9617)
• Add unit tests for warnings and sub elements (#9637)
• Refactor and speed up combine_ovals.py (#9689)
• Fix unit tests to work with CentOS 7 (#9727)
• make CPE items compiled during the build process (#9700)
• SRG Diff: Add section for rows without a CCE (#9763)
• Make the utils/srg_diff.py more generic (#9767)
• parametrize methods for getting remediation conditionals of XCCDF platforms (#9777)
• build_remediations.py: deduplicate code which retrieves conditionals (#9779)
• Add sorted results to srg_diff (#9778)
• Add Smoke Tests for Some Scripts (#9787)
• Platforms can accept parameters and pass them to underlying CPE items (#9799)
• Do not remove blank lines when building profile playbook (#9809)
• SRG Export XLSX in CMake (#9811)
• Add config for Ansible lint (#9838)

Changes in the Test Suite

• [Master] add accounts_password_set_max_life_existing to unselect_rules_list (#9554)
• Fix issue introduced in commit 1ba11cb (#9692)
• Add tests to rule dconf_gnome_screensaver_idle_activation_enabled (#9701)
• Refactor firewalld_sshd_port_enabled rule (#9712)
• Complete tests to validate Ol9 pci dss profile (#9739)
• Add tests to accounts_password template (#9743)
• Do not instantiate Builder() when running Automatus (#9755)
• Fix Automatus --duplicate-templates (#9766)
• accounts_password_pam_retry: Add test for dupes and conflicts (#9805)
• accounts_passwords: Add tests for value conflicts and duplicates (#9804)
• sshd_lineinfile: Add tests for duplicated params (#9802)
• CI ansible hardening and rename of existing Bash hardening (#9796)
• Stabilization: Ensure pwquality.conf.d dir exists on test scenarios (#9864)

Documentation

• Doc fix up (#9596)
• Add PR gating guideline (#9611)
• Move to MyST as recommonmark and CommonMark are not supported (#9560)
• Fix docs refs (#9704)
• Include SLE products into the CCE tooling for auto assignment (#9714)
• Docs/developer: Mention that rules will inherit its group(s) platforms (#9635)
• Reformulate the release process documentation (#9736)
• Update gitignore (#9810)
• Document rule deprecation instructions and agreements (#9797)
• Update contributors list for v0.1.65 release (#9843)
• Add Sanity Test for generate_contributors.py (#9845)