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1.12 RHEL-09-212015

Information

RHEL 9 must disable the ability of systemd to spawn an interactive boot process.

GROUP ID: V-257788
RULE ID: SV-257788r1044838

Using interactive or recovery boot, the console user could disable auditing, firewalls, or other services, weakening system security.

Solution

Configure the current GRUB 2 configuration to disable the ability of systemd to spawn an interactive boot process with the following command:

$ sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --remove-args="systemd.confirm_spawn"

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/22008

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-257788r1044838_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-09-212015, Vuln-ID|V-257788

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 1b467bc7b139250a6435aab7d816295158c2debe288c3fdc98471d6f34ccfcd7