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V-257865CAT II — Medium severitySV-257865r1184297_rule

RHEL 9 must mount /dev/shm with the nosuid option.

Rule version RHEL-09-231120 · STIG v2 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

The "nosuid" mount option causes the system to not execute "setuid" and "setgid" files with owner privileges. This option must be used for mounting any file system not containing approved "setuid" and "setguid" files. Executing files from untrusted file systems increases the opportunity for nonprivileged users to attain unauthorized administrative access.

Check

Verify "/dev/shm" is mounted with the "nosuid" option with the following command:

$ findmnt /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec,seclabel

If the mount options for /dev/shm does not include nosuid, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure "/dev/shm" to mount with the "nosuid" option.

Modify "/etc/fstab" to use the "nosuid" option on the "/dev/shm" file system.

To reload all implicit mount units and update the dependency graph so that new options will apply correctly at next remount, run the following command:

$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Use the following command to apply the changes immediately without a reboot:

$ sudo mount -o remount /dev/shm

Identifiers

Group ID
V-257865
Group title
SRG-OS-000368-GPOS-00154
Rule ID
SV-257865r1184297_rule
Check ID
C-61606r1184296_chk
Fix ID
F-61530r1155635_fix