The RHEL 8 file system automounter must be disabled.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-230502	SRG-OS-000114-GPOS-00059	RHEL-08-040070	SV-230502r1155393_rule	2025-11-24	2

Description
Automatically mounting file systems permits easy introduction of unknown devices, thereby facilitating malicious activity.

ℹ️ Check
Verify RHEL 8 disables the ability to automount devices. Check to see if automounter service is active with the following command: Note: If the autofs service is not installed, this requirement is not applicable. $ sudo systemctl status autofs o autofs.service - Automounts filesystems on demand Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/autofs.service; disabled) Active: inactive (dead) If the "autofs" status is set to "active", this is a finding.

ℹ️ Check

Verify RHEL 8 disables the ability to automount devices. Check to see if automounter service is active with the following command: Note: If the autofs service is not installed, this requirement is not applicable. $ sudo systemctl status autofs o autofs.service - Automounts filesystems on demand Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/autofs.service; disabled) Active: inactive (dead) If the "autofs" status is set to "active", this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Configure RHEL 8 to disable the ability to automount devices. Turn off the automount service with the following commands: $ sudo systemctl stop autofs $ sudo systemctl disable autofs