The operating system must protect audit tools from unauthorized access.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-216282	SRG-OS-000256	SOL-11.1-020030	SV-216282r958610_rule	2024-11-25	3

Description
Failure to maintain system configurations may result in privilege escalation.

ℹ️ Check
The Software Installation Profile is required. Determine what the signature policy is for pkg publishers: # pkg property \| grep signature-policy Check that output produces: signature-policy verify If the output does not confirm that signature-policy verify is active, this is a finding. Check that package permissions are configured and signed per vendor requirements. # pkg verify If the command produces any output unrelated to STIG changes, this is a finding. There is currently a Solaris 11 bug 16267888 which reports pkg verify errors for a variety of python packages. These can be ignored.

ℹ️ Check

The Software Installation Profile is required. Determine what the signature policy is for pkg publishers: # pkg property | grep signature-policy Check that output produces: signature-policy verify If the output does not confirm that signature-policy verify is active, this is a finding. Check that package permissions are configured and signed per vendor requirements. # pkg verify If the command produces any output unrelated to STIG changes, this is a finding. There is currently a Solaris 11 bug 16267888 which reports pkg verify errors for a variety of python packages. These can be ignored.

✔️ Fix
The Software Installation Profile is required. Configure the package system to ensure that digital signatures are verified. # pfexec pkg set-property signature-policy verify Check that package permissions are configured per vendor requirements. # pfexec pkg verify If any errors are reported unrelated to STIG changes, use: # pfexec pkg fix to bring configuration settings and permissions into factory compliance.

✔️ Fix

The Software Installation Profile is required. Configure the package system to ensure that digital signatures are verified. # pfexec pkg set-property signature-policy verify Check that package permissions are configured per vendor requirements. # pfexec pkg verify If any errors are reported unrelated to STIG changes, use: # pfexec pkg fix to bring configuration settings and permissions into factory compliance.