RHEL 9 must have the crypto-policies package installed.

STIG ID: RHEL-09-672010  |  SRG: SRG-OS-000396-GPOS-00176 |  Severity: medium |  CCI: CCI-002450,CCI-002890,CCI-003123 |  Vulnerability Id: V-258234

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 utilizing encryption to protect data.

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

Check

Verify that RHEL 9 crypto-policies package is installed with the following command:

$ sudo dnf list --installed crypto-policies

Example output:

crypto-policies.noarch 20220223-1.git5203b41.el9_0.1

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 install crypto-policies
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