Chef Compliance Audit Profiles release notes

20241106

New Features

• CIS Oracle Linux 9 v2.0.0(Audits)
• CIS Debian Linux 12 v1.0.1(Audits)
• CIS Debian Linux 11 v2.0.0(Audits)
• CIS Windows Server 2022 v3.0.0(Audits)

20240910

New Features

• CIS Amazon Linux 2023 v1.0.0(Audits)
• CIS Apple Mac OS 13.0 Ventura v2.0.0(Audits)
• CIS Windows Server 2012r2 v3.0.0(Audits)
• CIS MariaDB v1.0.0 (Audits)
• CIS Azure Foundation v2.0.0 (Audits)
• CIS AWS Foundation v2.0.0 (Audits)
• CIS Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise Benchmark v3.0.0
• STIG Oracle Linux 8 v1.8.0
• CIS RHEL7 v4.0.0(Audits)
• CIS RHEL8 v3.0.0(Audits)
• CIS Oracle Linux 9 v1.0.0(Audits)
• CIS VMWare Esxi 7.0 v1.3.0(Audits)
• CIS IBM AIX 7.2 Benchmark v1.1.0(Audits)
• STIG Oracle Linux 8 v1.8.0(Audits)
• CIS Windows Server 2016 v3.0.0(Audits)
• CIS Windows Server 2019 v3.0.1(Audits)
• STIG RHEL 9 v1.1.0(Audits)
• STIG Microsoft IIS Server 10.0 v2(Audits)
• STIG Postgres SQL Server v2(Audits)

Improvements

• CIS CentOS Linux 7 v3.1.2 Benchmark Level 1 - Server controls were incorrect; improved the password regex check.
• CIS Rhel 7 v3.1.1 code optimisation.
• CIS RHEL 9 v1.0.0 for control 5.6.2 regex fixed for login path.
• CIS RHEL 9 v1.0.0 fixed 17 controls to verify tests in defined commands and files.

Bug Fixes

• RHEL 7v2.0.0 Control 1.2.3 Ensure gpgcheck is globally activated is showing as failing.

20240226

New features

Added the following compliance profiles:

• CIS Amazon Linux 2023 v1.0.0 (Audits)
• CIS Apple Mac OS 13.0 Ventura v2.0.0 (Audits)
• CIS Windows Server 2012r2 v3.0.0 (Audits)

Bug fixes

• Fixed the CIS CentOS Linux 7 v3.1.2 Benchmark Level 1 - Server profile to correctly audit password content.

20231030

New features

• STIG Windows Server 2022 v1.2.0(Audits)
• CIS Windows Server 2022 v2.0.0(Audits)
• CIS Windows Server 2016 v2.0.0(Audits)

20230905

New features

• CIS Oracle Solaris 11.4 v1.0.0(Audits)
• CIS Windows Server 2019 v2.0.0(Audits)

20230623

New features

• CIS Ubuntu 22.04 v1.0.0 (Audit).
• CIS SUSE Linux Enterprise 12v3.1.0 (Audit).
• STIG Windows 11 v1r2. (Audit)
• CIS Amazon EKS v1.0.0. (Audit)

Improvements

• CIS RHEL 8 v2.0.0 fix for controls that require sudo permission which gave a false positive.
• CIS RHEL 7 v3.1.1 fix for controls that require sudo permission which gave a false positive.
• CIS CentOS Linux 8 v2.0.0 fix for controls that require sudo permission which gave a false positive.
• CIS Azure Foundation v1.5.0 implemented Azure API & Powershell MSOnline cmdlet for controls (1.1, 1.2, 1.9, 1.11, 1.12).

Bug fixes

• CIS CentOS Linux 7 Benchmark v3.1.2 : UMASK wrong check issue(Control 5.5.5)

20230509

New features

• CIS Oracle MySQL Community Server 5.7 v2.0.0 (Audit).
• CIS Azure Foundation v1.5.0 (Audit).
• CIS Redhat Openshift v1.3.0 (Audit).
• CIS IBM AIX 7.1 v2.1.0 (Audit).
• CIS RHEL 8 v2.0.0 (Audit).
• CIS RHEL 9 v1.0.0 (Audit).

20221212

New features

• CIS VMWare ESXi 7.0 v1.1.0 (Audit).
• CIS Rocky Linux 8 v1.0.0 (Audit).
• STIG Windows Server 2019 v2r2 (Audits).
• CIS Windows Server 2019 v1.3.0 (Audits)
• CIS Windows Server 2016 v1.4.0 (Audits)

Improvements

• Added platform support for CIS RHEL 7 v3.1.1. & CIS Amazon Linux 2 v2.0.0.

Bug fixes

• Added platform support for Amazon Linux 2, RHEL 7 and RHEL 8.
• Optimized redundant API calls by caching SharePoint tenant library for CIS Microsoft Office 365.
• Readme updated on access level for CIS Microsoft Sharepoint 2016 v1.1.0

20220913

New features

• CIS Alma Linux v2.0.0 (Audit).
• CIS Oracle Linux 8 v2.0.0 (Audit).
• CIS Google Kubernetes Engine v1.2.0 (Audit).
• CIS MS Office 365 v1.4.0.

Bug fixes

• CIS MS Office 365 v1.4.0 scale fix for control 4.3, 5.2, and 5.1 (Audit).

20220808

New features

• CIS Apache HTTP Server 2.4 v2.0.0 (Audit).
• CIS Windows Server 2022 v1.0.0 (Audit).
• STIG Ubuntu 20.04 v1.2.0 (Audit).

Improvements

• CIS Windows Server 2016 v1.3.0 (added audit procedure to manual controls and removed special characters in the control’s title).
• CIS MSSQL Server 2016 v1.3.0 (added audit procedure to manual controls and removed special characters in the control’s title).
• CIS Oracle 12c v3.0.0 (added audit procedure to manual controls and removed special characters in the control’s title).
• CIS Oracle 18c v1.0.0 (added audit procedure to manual controls and removed special characters in the control’s title).
• CIS Oracle 19c v1.0.0 (added audits procedure to manual controls and removed special characters in the control’s title).

Bug fixes

• CIS RHEL 8 v2.0.0 fix for control 6.2.7 implementation mismatch (Audit).