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Accounts (umask): 4 controls for Linux hardening

Pavois audits 4 controls in the Accounts (umask) hardening domain, across 9 systems and 4 standards (CIS, ANSSI BP-028, NIST 800-53, DISA STIG). Every control declares the evidence it gathers, its severity, its remediation and its standard references.

The domain in figures

Controls4
Severities
medium 4
Evidence gathered
persistent config 4
Standards
CISANSSI BP-028NIST 800-53DISA STIG
Systems
Debian 12Debian 13FedoraRHEL 10 / Rocky 10 / AlmaLinux 10RHEL 8 / Rocky 8 / AlmaLinux 8RHEL 9 / Rocky 9 / AlmaLinux 9Ubuntu 22.04Ubuntu 24.04Ubuntu 26.04
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What does Pavois check in this domain?

persistent config 4
Checked against the content of a persistent configuration file, the source of truth that survives reboots.

Which standards does this domain cover?

One effective-configuration check serves as evidence for several standards at once. The references below are the ones the corpus actually carries, never a claimed equivalence. how to read a standard mapping.

CIS
5.4.3.3
ANSSI BP-028
R36
NIST 800-53
AC-6(1), CM-6(a)
DISA STIG
UBTU-22-412035, UBTU-24-300030

The 4 controls of the Accounts (umask) domain

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