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SLEM 5 must implement multifactor authentication for access to privileged accounts via pluggable authentication modules (PAM).

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-261397SLEM-05-612015SV-261397r996612_ruleCCI-000187medium
Description
Using an authentication device, such as a Common Access Card (CAC) or token that is separate from the information system, ensures that even if the information system is compromised, that compromise will not affect credentials stored on the authentication device. Multifactor solutions that require devices separate from information systems gaining access include, for example, hardware tokens providing time-based or challenge-response authenticators and smart cards such as the U.S. Government Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card and the DOD CAC. A privileged account is defined as an information system account with authorizations of a privileged user. Remote access is access to DOD nonpublic information systems by an authorized user (or an information system) communicating through an external, nonorganization-controlled network. Remote access methods include, for example, dial-up, broadband, and wireless. This requirement only applies to components where this is specific to the function of the device or has the concept of an organizational user (e.g., VPN, proxy capability). This does not apply to authentication for the purpose of configuring the device itself (management).
STIGDate
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro (SLEM) 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide2025-05-08

Related Frameworks

8 mappings across 4 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (9) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

IAC-10.2PKI-Based Authentication
1.00
IAC-02.3Acceptance of PIV Credentials
0.50
IAC-06Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
0.50
IAC-06.1Network Access to Privileged Accounts
0.50
IAC-06.2Network Access to Non-Privileged Accounts
0.50
IAC-06.3Local Access to Privileged Accounts
0.50
IAC-06.4Out-of-Band Multi-Factor Authentication
0.50
IAC-10.7Hardware Token-Based Authentication
0.50
TDA-02.2Information Assurance Enabled Products
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (77) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-10Concurrent Session Control
1.00
AC-11Device Lock
1.00
AC-11(1)Pattern-hiding Displays
1.00
AC-12Session Termination
1.00
AC-17(10)Authenticate Remote Commands
1.00
AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
1.00
AC-2(10)Shared and Group Account Credential Change
1.00
AC-2(11)Usage Conditions
1.00
AC-2(2)Automated Temporary and Emergency Account Management
1.00
AC-2(3)Disable Accounts
1.00

+67 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

NIST 800-1710 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

3.5.3
1.00
CCI8 mappings
CCI-000187
1.00
CCI-000765
1.00
CCI-000766
1.00
CCI-000767
1.00
CCI-000768
1.00
CCI-001948
1.00
CCI-001953
1.00
CCI-001954
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-261397r996612_chk)

Verify SLEM 5 implements multifactor authentication for remote access to privileged accounts via PAM with the following command: > grep pam_pkcs11.so /etc/pam.d/common-auth auth sufficient pam_pkcs11.so If "pam_pkcs11.so" is not set in "/etc/pam.d/common-auth", or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-65034r996057_fix)

Configure SLEM 5 to implement multifactor authentication for remote access to privileged accounts via PAM. Add or modify the following line in the "/etc/pam.d/common-auth" file: auth sufficient pam_pkcs11.so