RHEL 9 must disable network management of the chrony daemon.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-257947	RHEL-09-252030	SV-257947r958480_rule		Low

Description

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

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-12-04

Details

Check Text (C-61688r925826_chk)

Verify RHEL 9 disables network management of the chrony daemon with the following command:

$ grep -w cmdport /etc/chrony.conf

cmdport 0

If the "cmdport" option is not set to "0", is commented out, or is missing, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-61612r925827_fix)

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