1.204 OL09-00-002000

Information

OL 9 file system automount function must be disabled unless required.

GROUP ID: V-271639
RULE ID: SV-271639r1091629

An authentication process resists replay attacks if it is impractical to achieve a successful authentication by recording and replaying a previous authentication message.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000114-GPOS-00059, SRG-OS-000378-GPOS-00163

Solution

Configure OL 9 to disable and mask the ability to automount devices.

The autofs service can be disabled and masked with the following command:

$ sudo systemctl mask --now autofs.service

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/27024