Detections
Analytics

1.260 WN11-UR-000145

Information

The 'Perform volume maintenance tasks' user right must only be assigned to the Administrators group.

GROUP ID: V-253503
RULE ID: SV-253503r958726

Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities.

Accounts with the 'Perform volume maintenance tasks' user right can manage volume and disk configurations. They could potentially delete volumes, resulting in data loss or a DoS.

Solution

Configure the policy value for

Computer Configuration >> Windows Settings >> Security Settings >> Local Policies >> User Rights Assignment >> 'Perform volume maintenance tasks'

to only include the following groups or accounts:

Administrators

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/27756

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-6(10), CCI|CCI-002235, Rule-ID|SV-253503r958726_rule, STIG-ID|WN11-UR-000145, Vuln-ID|V-253503

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 6f8d3d9f732df16f8278be46a8aa13c497a2ac0b8e3ea13cd1a0167c5a5bf55e