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Software Installation with Privileged Status

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Allow user installation of software only with explicit privileged status.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Privileged status can be obtained, for example, by serving in the role of system administrator.

Implementation Guidance

Engineering Interpretation

Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.

No engineering interpretation has been authored for CM-11(2) yet. This section is architected to receive it — see the Requirements and Assessment sections above for the authoritative NIST source content in the meantime.

Assessment

NIST SP 800-53A REV 5.2.0

Assessment Objectives

  1. user installation of software is allowed only with explicit privileged status.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Configuration management policy; procedures addressing user-installed software; configuration management plan; system security plan; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; alerts/notifications of unauthorized software installations; system audit records; continuous monitoring strategy; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with responsibilities for governing user-installed software; organizational personnel operating, using, and/or maintaining the system; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; system/network administrators].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes governing user-installed software on the system; mechanisms for prohibiting installation of software without privileged status (e.g., access controls)].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control CM-11 — see the CM-11(2) entries within each baseline below.

OT/ICS Overlay SP 800-82r3

NIST SP 800-82r3 Appendix F, Table 22. Blank baseline means the control/control enhancement is not selected in that initial OT baseline.

LOW

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for CM-11(2). This section is architected to display, per product: STIG ID, Finding ID, Severity, Title, Description, Check, Fix, CCI, and NIST control mapping — but nothing is populated here until a real DISA STIG/CCI dataset is ingested.

Learn more about STIG/CCI integration →

Evidence

Potential Evidence — Derived

Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.

Policy

  • system security plan
  • continuous monitoring strategy

Configuration

  • Configuration management policy
  • configuration management plan
  • system design documentation
  • system configuration settings and associated documentation

Testing

  • Organizational processes governing user-installed software on the system
  • mechanisms for prohibiting installation of software without privileged status (e.g., access controls)

Other Records

  • procedures addressing user-installed software
  • alerts/notifications of unauthorized software installations
  • system audit records
  • other relevant documents or records