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GEN008480 - The system must have USB Mass Storage disabled unless needed.

Information

USB is a common computer peripheral interface. USB devices may include storage devices that could be used to install malicious software on a system or exfiltrate data.

Solution

Disable USB mass storage on the system by using SMIT to remove the following filesets.
devices.usbif.010100
devices.usbif.08025002
devices.usbif.080400

# smitty remove

See Also

https://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_AIX_6-1_V1R14_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|III, CCI|CCI-000366, Group-ID|V-22579, Rule-ID|SV-38834r1_rule, STIG-ID|GEN008480, Vuln-ID|V-22579

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 7e8e4ce73c1351925fc097ca44c4a734190ac7f1666ce5050f3c2993b83f9b4f