Vulnerability Discussion

Centralized cryptographic policies simplify applying secure ciphers across an operating system and the applications that run on that operating system. Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000396-GPOS-00176, SRG-OS-000393-GPOS-00173, SRG-OS-000394-GPOS-00174

Check

Verify the RHEL 8 crypto-policies package is installed with the following command:

$ sudo dnf list --installed crypto-policies

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Installed Packages
crypto-policies.noarch 20230731-1.git3177e06.el8 @rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms

If the crypto-policies package is not installed, this is a finding.

Fix

Install the crypto-policies package (if the package is not already installed) with the following command:

$ sudo dnf -y install crypto-policies