STIGUI
V-257838CAT II — Medium severitySV-257838r1268228_rule

RHEL 9 must have the openssl-pkcs11 package installed.

Rule version RHEL-09-215075 · STIG v2 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

Without the use of multifactor authentication, the ease of access to privileged functions is greatly increased. Multifactor authentication requires using two or more factors to achieve authentication. A privileged account is defined as an information system account with authorizations of a privileged user. The DoW common access card (CAC) with DoW-approved PKI is an example of multifactor authentication.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000105-GPOS-00052, SRG-OS-000375-GPOS-00160, SRG-OS-000376-GPOS-00161, SRG-OS-000377-GPOS-00162

Check

Note: If the system administrator demonstrates the use of an approved alternate multifactor authentication method, this requirement is Not Applicable.

Verify that RHEL 9 has the openssl-pkcs11 package installed with the following command:

$ dnf list --installed openssl-pkcs11

Example output:

openssl-pkcs.i686 0.4.11-7.el9 openssl-pkcs.x86_64 0.4.11-7.el9

If the "openssl-pkcs11" package is not installed, this is a finding.

Fix

The openssl-pkcs11 package can be installed with the following command:

$ sudo dnf install openssl-pkcs11

Identifiers

Group ID
V-257838
Group title
SRG-OS-000105-GPOS-00052
Rule ID
SV-257838r1268228_rule
Check ID
C-61579r1044911_chk
Fix ID
F-61503r925500_fix