RHEL 9 must disable network management of the chrony daemon.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>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</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-257947r925828_rule
- Severity
- Low
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
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