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V-215387CAT II — Medium severitySV-215387r958478_rule

The imap2 service must be disabled on AIX.

Rule version AIX7-00-003082 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-31

Discussion

The imap2 service or Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) supports the IMAP4 remote mail access protocol. It works with sendmail and bellmail. This service should be disabled if it is not required to prevent attacks.

Check

From the command prompt, execute the following command: # grep "^imap2[[:blank:]]" /etc/inetd.conf

If there is any output from the command, this is a finding.

Fix

In "/etc/inetd.conf", comment out the "imap2" entry by running command: # chsubserver -r inetd -C /etc/inetd.conf -d -v 'imap2' -p 'tcp'

Restart inetd: # refresh -s inetd

Identifiers

Group ID
V-215387
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-215387r958478_rule
Check ID
C-16585r294612_chk
Fix ID
F-16583r294613_fix