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V-281300CAT II — Medium severitySV-281300r1167050_rule

RHEL 10 must disable the ability of systemd to spawn an interactive boot process.

Rule version RHEL-10-700980 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

Using interactive or recovery boot, the console user could disable auditing, firewalls, or other services, weakening system security.

Check

Verify RHEL 10 is configured so that the current GRUB 2 configuration disables the ability of systemd to spawn an interactive boot process with the following command:

$ sudo grubby --info=ALL | grep args | grep 'systemd.confirm_spawn'

If any output is returned, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure RHEL 10 so that the current GRUB 2 configuration disables the ability of systemd to spawn an interactive boot process with the following command:

$ sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --remove-args="systemd.confirm_spawn"

Identifiers

Group ID
V-281300
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-281300r1167050_rule
Check ID
C-85861r1167048_chk
Fix ID
F-85766r1167049_fix