STIGUI
V-257947CAT III — Low severitySV-257947r958480_rule

RHEL 9 must disable network management of the chrony daemon.

Rule version RHEL-09-252030 · STIG v2 · 2026-09-17

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 RHEL 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 RHEL 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-257947
Group title
SRG-OS-000096-GPOS-00050
Rule ID
SV-257947r958480_rule
Check ID
C-61688r925826_chk
Fix ID
F-61612r925827_fix