V-224301

Discussion

Program products can run with sensitive system privileges, and potentially can circumvent system controls. Failure to properly control access to program product resources could result in the compromise of the operating system environment, and compromise the confidentiality of customer data. Many utilities assign resource controls that can be granted to systems programmers only in greater than read authority. Resources are also granted to certain non-systems personnel with read only authority.

Check Content

Refer to the following report produced by the ACF2 Data Collection and dataset and Resource Data Collection:

- SENSITVE.RPT(FACILITY).
- ACF2CMDS.RPT(RESOURCE) - Alternate report.

Automated Analysis
Refer to the following report produced by the dataset and Resource Data Collection:

- PDI(ZHCD0020).

Review the following items for the IBM Hardware Configuration Definition (HCD) resources in the FACILITY resource class, TYPE(FAC). If the following guidance is true, this is not a finding.

The ACF2 rules for the CBD resource specify a default access of NONE.

No ACF2 rules allow access to the CBD resource.

The ACF2 rules for the CBD.CPC.IOCDS and CBD.CPC.IPLPARM resources are restricted access to systems programming and operations personnel as well as possibly any automated operations batch users with access of READ.

The ACF2 rules for the CBD.CPC.IOCDS and CBD.CPC.IPLPARM resources are restricted access to systems programming with access of UPDATE and logged.