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V-281300

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 10 must disable the ability of systemd to spawn an interactive boot process.

Rule ID

SV-281300r1167050_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

Using interactive or recovery boot, the console user could disable auditing, firewalls, or other services, weakening system security.

Check Content

Verify RHEL 10 is configured so that the current GRUB 2 configuration disables the ability of systemd to spawn an interactive boot process with the following command:

$ sudo grubby --info=ALL | grep args | grep 'systemd.confirm_spawn'

If any output is returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure RHEL 10 so that the current GRUB 2 configuration disables the ability of systemd to spawn an interactive boot process with the following command:

$ sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --remove-args="systemd.confirm_spawn"