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RHEL-10-200543 - RHEL 10 must disable network management of the chrony daemon.

Information

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

cmdport 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

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7a., 800-53|CM-7b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000381, CCI|CCI-000382, Rule-ID|SV-280961r1165238_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-10-200543, Vuln-ID|V-280961

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: e06fc868e67438e922a6881c526db67895a19bae81eb8922767d87cfa8a80af0