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Ensure net-snmp is not installed

package-net-snmp-removed · RHEL ≥ 8 · 2 impls

Description

The net-snmp package provides SNMP agent functionality. Unless SNMP monitoring is specifically required and properly secured, this package should not be installed.

Rationale

SNMP can expose sensitive system information and has had security vulnerabilities. If not required for monitoring, removing it reduces the attack surface.

Check → Remediate

Checkpackage_state
name:
net-snmp
state:
absent
Remediatepackage_absent
name:
net-snmp

Framework references

NIST 800-53

CM-7
#package#snmp#monitoring#attack-surface