Login Binaries

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Processes that indicate login attempts

Rationale: Login processes at runtime are unusual in a container
Remediation: Ensure that the base image used to create the Dockerfile doesn't have login binaries packaged with it.

CategoriesSecurity Best Practices

DORA EU 2022/2554: Art. 9.2
ISO/IEC 27001 2022: A.8.9
NIST SP 800-53 rev. 5: CM-2
PCI DSS 4.0: 2.2.1

Generated artifacts

1 of 5 targets supported

- rule: login-binaries
  desc: Processes that indicate login attempts
  condition: proc.name in ("login|systemd|systemd|systemd-logind|gosu|su|nologin|faillog|lastlog|newgrp|sg")
  output: Process %proc.name executed by user %user.name (uid=%user.uid) in container %container.id image=%container.image.repository (policy=Login Binaries)
  priority: ERROR
  source: syscall
  tags:
    - stackrox-import
    - policy

IR (canonical)

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  "name": "Login Binaries",
  "description": "Processes that indicate login attempts",
  "rationale": "Login processes at runtime are unusual in a container",
  "remediation": "Ensure that the base image used to create the Dockerfile doesn't have login binaries packaged with it.",
  "severity": "high",
  "categories": [
    "Security Best Practices"
  ],
  "lifecycle": [
    "runtime"
  ],
  "eventSource": "deployment",
  "scope": [],
  "exclusions": [],
  "enforcement": {
    "failBuild": false
  },
  "expression": {
    "op": "criterion",
    "field": "process-name",
    "values": [
      "login|systemd|systemd|systemd-logind|gosu|su|nologin|faillog|lastlog|newgrp|sg"
    ],
    "valuesOp": "or",
    "negate": false
  },
  "disabled": true
}

Original StackRox JSON

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  "id": "1c4e2cab-ce24-4e2a-9a66-f61028e79931",
  "name": "Login Binaries",
  "description": "Processes that indicate login attempts",
  "rationale": "Login processes at runtime are unusual in a container",
  "remediation": "Ensure that the base image used to create the Dockerfile doesn't have login binaries packaged with it.",
  "disabled": true,
  "categories": [
    "Security Best Practices"
  ],
  "lifecycleStages": [
    "RUNTIME"
  ],
  "eventSource": "DEPLOYMENT_EVENT",
  "exclusions": [],
  "scope": [],
  "severity": "HIGH_SEVERITY",
  "enforcementActions": [],
  "policySections": [
    {
      "sectionName": "",
      "policyGroups": [
        {
          "fieldName": "Process Name",
          "booleanOperator": "OR",
          "negate": false,
          "values": [
            {
              "value": "login|systemd|systemd|systemd-logind|gosu|su|nologin|faillog|lastlog|newgrp|sg"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "notifiers": [],
  "lastUpdated": null,
  "SORTName": "",
  "SORTLifecycleStage": "",
  "SORTEnforcement": false,
  "policyVersion": "1.1",
  "mitreAttackVectors": [
    {
      "tactic": "TA0004",
      "techniques": [
        "T1548"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "criteriaLocked": true,
  "mitreVectorsLocked": true,
  "isDefault": true,
  "source": "IMPERATIVE"
}