This role was cloned and completely reimplemented from Florianutz (https://github.com/francsw/ubuntu2204_cis) repo and changed to work with Ubuntu 22.04.

Configure Ubuntu 22.04 machine to be CIS compliant. Level 1 and 2 findings will be corrected by default.

This role will make changes to the system that could break things. This is not an auditing tool but rather a remediation tool to be used after an audit has been conducted.

Based on CIS Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS Benchmark - v1.0.0 - 08-30-2022 .

• If you find a bug within the role, but can't fix it yourself, please create a ticket with as many details as possible. Please keep in mind that all developers work on the project in their spare time, and it may take some time to get feedback Issues Page

If you want to install this via the ansible-galaxy command you'll need to run it like this:

ansible-galaxy install -p roles -r requirements.yml

With this in the file requirements.yml:

- src: https://github.com/spmzt/ubuntu2204_cis.git

You can find an example playbook below. please read the documentation anyway and check the settings for your case. For example, the default settings uninstall the X server!

- name: Harden Server
  hosts: servers
  become: yes

  roles:
    - ubuntu2204_cis

To run the tasks in this repository, first create this file one level above the repository (i.e. the playbook .yml and the directory ubuntu2204_cis should be next to each other), then review the file defaults/main.yml and disable any rule/section you do not wish to execute.

Assuming you named the file site.yml, run it with:

ansible-playbook site.yml

You should carefully read through the tasks to make sure these changes will not break your systems before running this playbook.

There are many role variables defined in defaults/main.yml. This list shows the most important.

ubuntu2204cis_notauto: Run CIS checks that we typically do NOT want to automate due to the high probability of breaking the system (Default: false)

ubuntu2204cis_section1: CIS - General Settings (Section 1) (Default: true)

ubuntu2204cis_section2: CIS - Services settings (Section 2) (Default: true)

ubuntu2204cis_section3: CIS - Network settings (Section 3) (Default: true)

ubuntu2204cis_section4: CIS - Logging and Auditing settings (Section 4) (Default: true)

ubuntu2204cis_section5: CIS - Access, Authentication and Authorization settings (Section 5) (Default: true)

ubuntu2204cis_section6: CIS - System Maintenance settings (Section 6) (Default: true)

ubuntu2204cis_selinux_disable: false

####These control whether a server should or should not be allowed to continue to run these services

ubuntu2204cis_avahi_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_cups_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_dhcp_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_ldap_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_telnet_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_nfs_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_rpc_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_ntalk_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_rsyncd_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_tftp_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_rsh_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_nis_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_snmp_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_squid_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_smb_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_dovecot_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_httpd_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_vsftpd_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_named_server: false  
ubuntu2204cis_allow_autofs: false

ubuntu2204cis_is_mail_server: false

####System network parameters (host only OR host and router) ubuntu2204cis_is_router: false

####IPv6 required ubuntu2204cis_ipv6_required: true

ubuntu2204cis_config_aide: true

ubuntu2204cis_aide_cron:
  cron_user: root
  cron_file: /etc/crontab
  aide_job: '/usr/sbin/aide --check'
  aide_minute: 0
  aide_hour: 5
  aide_day: '*'
  aide_month: '*'
  aide_weekday: '*'  

ubuntu2204cis_xwindows_required: no

ubuntu2204cis_openldap_clients_required: false
ubuntu2204cis_telnet_required: false
ubuntu2204cis_talk_required: false  
ubuntu2204cis_rsh_required: false
ubuntu2204cis_ypbind_required: false
ubuntu2204cis_rpc_required: false

ubuntu2204cis_time_synchronization: chrony
ubuntu2204cis_time_Synchronization: ntp

ubuntu2204cis_time_synchronization_servers:
  - uri: "0.pool.ntp.org"
    config: "minpoll 8"
  - uri: "1.pool.ntp.org"
    config: "minpoll 8"
  - uri: "2.pool.ntp.org"
    config: "minpoll 8"
  - uri: "3.pool.ntp.org"
    config: "minpoll 8"

It is disabled by default, noexec for /tmp will disrupt apt. /tmp contains executable scripts during package installation

It is disabled by default as it is setting random password for root. To enable it set:

ubuntu2204cis_rule_1_5_3: true

To use other than random password:

ubuntu2204cis_root_password: 'new password'

ubuntu2204cis_firewall: firewalld
ubuntu2204cis_firewall: iptables

ubuntu2204cis_pwquality:
  - key: 'minlen'
    value: '14'
  - key: 'dcredit'
    value: '-1'
  - key: 'ucredit'
    value: '-1'
  - key: 'ocredit'
    value: '-1'
  - key: 'lcredit'
    value: '-1'

Developed and testes with Ansible 2.10

Many tags are available for precise control of what is and is not changed.

Some examples of using tags:

    # Audit and patch the site
    ansible-playbook site.yml --tags="patch"

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