(SCAP-Finding) command port has to be closed

Nuß Bratling <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:53:13 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.time.chrony.user
Message-ID <CAJmRH6D210R1O4FVvE9qSv05958UnwwcBM2zZ63YDr3D7eX5Nw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,

There are these rules:
RHEL9:
https://www.stigviewer.com/stig/red_hat_enterprise_linux_9/2023-09-13/finding/V-257947
RHEL8:
https://www.stigviewer.com/stig/red_hat_enterprise_linux_8/2021-06-14/finding/V-230486

We do monitoring, and these, above, rules define that the network
monitoring (command) port (with less permissions) has to be closed, so that
we have to connect to the unix socket with more permissions to get the
monitoring metrics.

I'd argue that those rules make the security of a chrony installation worse
instead of better.

I don't know if you know about these rules, and if no, would bringt it to
your attention, that this rules perhaps should be changes, or, if you do
know about these rules, I would like to ask what the rationale behind those
are.

Thank you,

Moritz Molle