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Limit Library Privileges

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Limit privileges to change software resident within software libraries.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Software libraries include privileged programs.

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-5(6) 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. privileges to change software resident within software libraries are limited.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Configuration management policy; procedures addressing access restrictions for changes to the system; configuration management plan; system design documentation; system architecture and configuration documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; system component inventory; change control records; system audit records; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; system/network administrators].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for managing access restrictions to change; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing access restrictions for change].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control CM-5 — see the CM-5(6) 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)
  • Included: (1)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for CM-5(6). 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.

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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

Configuration

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

Testing

  • Organizational processes for managing access restrictions to change
  • mechanisms supporting and/or implementing access restrictions for change

Other Records

  • procedures addressing access restrictions for changes to the system
  • change control records
  • system audit records
  • other relevant documents or records