STIGUI
V-271698CAT III — Low severitySV-271698r1091806_rule

OL 9 must disable network management of the chrony daemon.

Rule version OL09-00-002321 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

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

Check

Verify that OL 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

Configure OL 9 to disable network management of the chrony daemon by adding/modifying the following line in the /etc/chrony.conf file:

cmdport 0

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271698
Group title
SRG-OS-000096-GPOS-00050
Rule ID
SV-271698r1091806_rule
Check ID
C-75748r1091804_chk
Fix ID
F-75655r1091805_fix