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RHEL 9 cryptographic policy must not be overridden.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Centralized cryptographic policies simplify applying secure ciphers across an operating system and the applications that run on that operating system. Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000396-GPOS-00176, SRG-OS-000393-GPOS-00173, SRG-OS-000394-GPOS-00174

ID
SV-258236r1051253_rule
Version
RHEL-09-672020
Severity
High
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure RHEL 9 to correctly implement the systemwide cryptographic policies by reinstalling the crypto-policies package contents.

Reinstall crypto-policies with the following command:

$ sudo dnf -y reinstall crypto-policies