STIGQter: STIG Summary: Solaris 10 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide Version: 2 Release: 2 Benchmark Date: 22 Jan 2021:

The SSH daemon must not allow rhosts RSA authentication.

DISA Rule

SV-226998r603265_rule

Vulnerability Number

V-226998

Group Title

SRG-OS-000480

Rule Version

GEN005538

Severity

CAT II

CCI(s)

• CCI-000366 - The organization implements the security configuration settings.

Weight

10

Fix Recommendation

Edit the SSH daemon configuration and change the RhostsRSAAuthentication setting value to no or remove it entirely.

Check Contents

Check the SSH daemon configuration for the RhostsRSAAuthentication setting.
# grep -i RhostsRSAAuthentication /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep -v '^#'
If the setting is set to yes, this is a finding.

Vulnerability Number

V-226998

Documentable

False

Rule Version

GEN005538

Severity Override Guidance

Check the SSH daemon configuration for the RhostsRSAAuthentication setting.
# grep -i RhostsRSAAuthentication /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep -v '^#'
If the setting is set to yes, this is a finding.

Check Content Reference

M

Target Key

4060

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