RHEL-08-040380 - The iprutils package must not be installed unless mission essential on RHEL 8.

Information

It is detrimental for operating systems to provide, or install by default, functionality exceeding requirements or mission objectives. These unnecessary capabilities or services are often overlooked and therefore may remain unsecured. They increase the risk to the platform by providing additional attack vectors.

Operating systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, provided by default, may not be necessary to support essential organizational operations (e.g., key missions, functions).

The iprutils package provides a suite of utilities to manage and configure SCSI devices supported by the ipr SCSI storage device driver.

Solution

Document the iprutils package with the ISSO as an operational requirement or remove it from the system with the following command:

$ sudo yum remove iprutils

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_RHEL_8_V2R1_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-230560r1017321_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-08-040380, Vuln-ID|V-230560

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 15feb3d9557ddb786eca7fd23e8250e26f29a734c16432815c0dfb819c0f02fd