GEN005538 - The SSH daemon must not allow rhosts RSA authentication.

Information

If SSH permits rhosts RSA authentication, a user may be able to log in based on the keys of the host originating the request and not any user-specific authentication.

Solution

Edit the SSH daemon configuration and change the RhostsRSAAuthentication setting value to no or remove it entirely.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_SOL_10_SPARC_V2R4_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-226998r603265_rule, STIG-ID|GEN005538, STIG-Legacy|SV-40396, STIG-Legacy|V-22487, Vuln-ID|V-226998

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: edd6cb002033710578d7ba6dda786b7583d46d49d74c1da400f1ea367b816837