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1.262 OL09-00-002321

Information

OL 9 must disable network management of the chrony daemon.

GROUP ID: V-271698
RULE ID: SV-271698r1091806

Not exposing the management interface of the chrony daemon on the network diminishes the attack space.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000096-GPOS-00050, SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

Solution

Configure OL 9 to disable network management of the chrony daemon by adding/modifying the following line in the /etc/chrony.conf file:

cmdport 0

See Also

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

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7, 800-53|CM-7a., 800-53|CM-7b., CCI|CCI-000381, CCI|CCI-000382, Rule-ID|SV-271698r1091806_rule, STIG-ID|OL09-00-002321, Vuln-ID|V-271698

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: d272d02ad5c0f41ef8e82e2238df687611bdd7deac2423e07d8709c37aa310ee