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RHEL-10-200542 - RHEL 10 must disable the chrony daemon from acting as a server.
Information
Minimizing the exposure of the server functionality of the chrony daemon diminishes the attack surface.Satisfies: SRG-OS-000096-GPOS-00050, SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Solution
Configure RHEL 10 to disable the chrony daemon from acting as a server by adding/modifying the following line in the "/etc/chrony.conf" file:port 0
Restart the chronyd service with the following command for the changes to take effect:
$ sudo systemctl restart chronyd
See Also
https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_RHEL_10_V1R1_STIG.zip
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 STIG v1r1
Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
References: 800-53|CM-7a., 800-53|CM-7b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000381, CCI|CCI-000382, Rule-ID|SV-280960r1165235_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-10-200542, Vuln-ID|V-280960
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: ac9225ffb19dfe9fe260d20793dc6ac6aae7066c6c6441613dffa14d1175a4d1