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Kernel command line: 18 controls for Linux hardening
Pavois audits 18 controls in the Kernel command line hardening domain, across 9 systems and 5 standards (CIS, ANSSI BP-028, NIST 800-53, PCI DSS, DISA STIG). Every control declares the evidence it gathers, its severity, its remediation and its standard references.
The domain in figures
| Controls | 18 |
| Severities | |
| Evidence gathered | |
| Standards | |
| Systems | Debian 12Debian 13FedoraRHEL 10 / Rocky 10 / AlmaLinux 10RHEL 8 / Rocky 8 / AlmaLinux 8RHEL 9 / Rocky 9 / AlmaLinux 9Ubuntu 22.04Ubuntu 24.04Ubuntu 26.04 |
| Coverage depth | in depth |
What does Pavois check in this domain?
- effective runtime 18
- Checked against the resolved running state (e.g. sshd -T, sysctl, systemctl show), catches drop-ins and Includes a file read would miss. Caveat: runtime ≠ persistence; a value correct now may not survive a reboot.
Which standards does this domain cover?
One effective-configuration check serves as evidence for several standards at once. The references below are the ones the corpus actually carries, never a claimed equivalence. how to read a standard mapping.
- CIS
- 1.3.1.2, 6.2.1.3, 6.2.1.4, 6.3.1.2, 6.3.1.3, 10.7.2
- ANSSI BP-028
- R7, R8
- NIST 800-53
- 3.1.2, 3.3.1, AC-17(1), AU-10, AU-14(1), CM-6(a), IR-5(1), SI-16
- PCI DSS
- 1.2.6, 10.7.2
- DISA STIG
- UBTU-22-212015, UBTU-24-102010