RHEL 9 SSH daemon must not allow rhosts authentication.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
SSH trust relationships mean a compromise on one host can allow an attacker to move trivially to other hosts.
- ID
- SV-258005r1045069_rule
- Version
- RHEL-09-255145
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Configure the SSH daemon to not allow rhosts authentication.
Add the following line to "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" or to a file in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config.d", or uncomment the line and set the value to "yes":
IgnoreRhosts yes