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1.173 RHEL-09-252030

Information

RHEL 9 must disable network management of the chrony daemon.

GROUP ID: V-257947
RULE ID: SV-257947r958480

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 RHEL 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/22008

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7, 800-53|CM-7a., 800-53|CM-7b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000381, CCI|CCI-000382, Rule-ID|SV-257947r958480_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-09-252030, Vuln-ID|V-257947

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: aa427b198a656541782b0eba437db75d47ec6a6fca87ba8168b593f9e087310c