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CM-07(06) Confined Environments with Limited Privileges

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.1.1+u4
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first version loaded CM part of CM-7

Title

Confined Environments with Limited Privileges

Control

Require that the following user-installed software execute in a confined physical or virtual machine environment with limited privileges: [Assignment: user-installed software].

Discussion

Organizations identify software that may be of concern regarding its origin or potential for containing malicious code. For this type of software, user installations occur in confined environments of operation to limit or contain damage from malicious code that may be executed.

Parameters

cm-07.06_odp: user-installed software

Related controls

cm-11, sc-44

Assessment objective

CM-07(06) [Assignment: user-installed software] is required to be executed in a confined physical or virtual machine environment with limited privileges.

STIG rules that implement this control 0

No followed STIG rule cites a CCI indexed to this control (CCI list 2026-07-14).