Detections
Analytics

1.270 WN16-UR-000280

Information

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

GROUP ID: V-225088
RULE ID: SV-225088r958726

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. This could be used to delete volumes, resulting in data loss or a denial of service.

Solution

Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration >> Windows Settings >> Security Settings >> Local Policies >> User Rights Assignment >> Perform volume maintenance tasks to include only the following accounts or groups:

 - Administrators

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23093

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-6(10), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-002235, Rule-ID|SV-225088r958726_rule, STIG-ID|WN16-UR-000280, Vuln-ID|V-225088

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 9fa1ffede4c0d60de572dabe15f5311b61ea7b89bc8acdee3bd4627c69701358