[BESAdmin-Announcements] BigFix Compliance: Updated DISA STIG Checklist for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server, published 2025-10-10

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

*Product:*
BigFix Compliance

*Title:*
Updated DISA STIG Checklist for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server.

*Security Benchmark:*
DISA Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS STIG SCAP Benchmark  V2R5

*Published Sites:*
DISA STIG Checklist for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server, site version 5
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)

*Details:*

●      *Total New Fixlets: 6*

●      *Total Updated Fixlets: 2*

●      *Total Deleted Fixlets: 0*

●      *Total Fixlets in Site: 181*

*New Fixlets:*

●      The operating system must restrict privilege elevation to authorized
personnel.

●      Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must audit any script or executable called by cron
as root or by any privileged user.

●      Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must have the "SSSD" package installed.

●      Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must map the authenticated identity to the user or
group account for PKI-based authentication (B).

●      Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must use the "SSSD" package for multifactor
authentication services.

●      Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must ensure SSSD performs certificate path
validation, including revocation checking, against a trusted anchor for
PKI-based authentication.

*Updated Fixlets:*

●      Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must be configured such that Pluggable
Authentication Module (PAM) prohibits the use of cached authentications
after one day.

●      Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must store only encrypted representations of
passwords.

*Additional details:*
● Both analysis and remediation checks are included
● Some of the checks allow you to use the parameterized setting to enable
customization for compliance evaluation. Note that parameterization and
remediation actions require the creation of a custom site.
Improved few checks by adding the pending restart feature to them. The
pending restart feature works in the following ways:
● The action results will show “Pending Restart” instead of “Fixed” for
those checks which requires OS reboot.
● The check will show relevant for those endpoints until they are rebooted.
● Post reboot of the endpoint the action results will show as “Fixed” and
the check will be compliant.



*Actions to take:*
● To subscribe to the above site, you can use the License Overview
Dashboard to enable and gather the site. Note that you must be entitled to
the BigFix Compliance product and you must be using BigFix version 10 and
later.
● If you use custom sites, update your custom sites accordingly to use the
latest content. You can synchronize your content by using the Synchronize
Custom Checks wizard. For more information, see Using the Synchronize
Custom Checks wizard
More information:
To know more about the BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see the
following resources:


● BigFix Forum:
*Compliance (Release Announcements)*
<https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance/63>

This category is used by HCL to announce new releases for BigFix Compliance.

● BigFix Compliance SCM Checklists:
Welcome to Wikis
We hope you find this latest release of SCM content useful and effective.

Thank you!
*– The BigFix Compliance team*
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