The nobody access for RPC encryption key storage service must be disabled.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
If login by the user "nobody" is allowed for secure RPC, there is an increased risk of system compromise. If keyserv holds a private key for the "nobody" user, it will be used by key_encryptsession to compute a magic phrase which can be easily recovered by a malicious user.
- ID
- SV-216350r959010_rule
- Version
- SOL-11.1-040320
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Determine if the rpc-authdes package is installed:
# pkg list solaris/legacy/security/rpc-authdes
If the output of this command is: