STIGUI
V-271697CAT III — Low severitySV-271697r1184202_rule

OL 9 must disable the chrony daemon from acting as a server.

Rule version OL09-00-002320 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

Minimizing the exposure of the server functionality of the chrony daemon diminishes the attack surface.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000096-GPOS-00050, SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

Check

Note: If the server is serving as an NTP server, this is not applicable.

Verify OL 9 disables the chrony daemon from acting as a server with the following command:

$ grep -w port /etc/chrony.conf port 0

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

Fix

Configure OL 9 to disable the chrony daemon from acting as a server by adding/modifying the following line in the /etc/chrony.conf file:

port 0

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271697
Group title
SRG-OS-000096-GPOS-00050
Rule ID
SV-271697r1184202_rule
Check ID
C-75747r1184201_chk
Fix ID
F-75654r1091802_fix