[BESAdmin-Announcements] BigFix Compliance: Updated CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 with bugfixes, published 2026-08-21

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

*Product:*

BigFix Compliance

*Title:*
Updated CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 with bugfixes.

*Security Benchmark:*
CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Benchmark, v4.0.0

*Published Sites:*
CIS Checklist for RHEL 8, site version 45
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)

*Details:*

*Updated Fixlets:*

●      Ensure local interactive user dot files access is configured.

●      Ensure journald ForwardToSyslog is disabled

●      Ensure audit log files mode is configured

●      Ensure accounts without a valid login shell are locked

●      Ensure local interactive user home directories are configured

●      Ensure sshd Ciphers are configured

●      Ensure sctp kernel module is not available

●      Ensure sshd UsePAM is enabled

●      Ensure firewalld backend is configured

●      Ensure password history is enforced for the root user

●      Ensure firewalld active zone target is configured

●      Ensure IPv6 status is identified

●      Ensure active authselect profile includes pam modules

●      Ensure nodev option set on /tmp partition

●      Ensure nosuid option set on /tmp partition

●      Ensure noexec option set on /tmp partition

●      Ensure nodev option set on /home partition

●      Ensure nosuid option set on /home partition

●      Ensure nodev option set on /var partition

●      Ensure nosuid option set on /var partition

●      Ensure nodev option set on /var/tmp partition

●      Ensure nosuid option set on /var/tmp partition

●      Ensure noexec option set on /var/tmp partition

●      Ensure nodev option set on /var/log partition

●      Ensure nosuid option set on /var/log partition

●      Ensure noexec option set on /var/log partition

●      Ensure nodev option set on /var/log/audit partition

●      Ensure nosuid option set on /var/log/audit partition

●      Ensure noexec option set on /var/log/audit partition

*Additional details:*

●      Both analysis and remediation checks are included.

●      Some of the checks allow you to use the parameterized setting to
enable customization for compliance evaluation. Note that parameterization
and remediation actions require the creation of a custom site.

●      Improved a few checks by adding the pending restart feature to them.
The pending restart feature works in the following ways:

●      The action results will show “Pending Restart” instead of “Fixed”
for those checks which require OS reboot.

●       The check will show relevant for those endpoints until they are
rebooted.

●      Post reboot of the endpoint the action results will show as “Fixed”
and the check will be compliant.

*Actions to take:*

To subscribe to the above site, you can use the License Overview Dashboard
to enable and gather the site. Note that you must be entitled to the BigFix
Compliance product and you must be using BigFix version 10.0 and later.

●       If you use custom sites, update your custom sites accordingly to
use the latest content. You can synchronize your content by using the
Synchronize Custom Checks wizard. For more information, see Using the
Synchronize Custom Checks wizard
<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html>

*More information:*
To know more about the BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see the
following resources:

●      BigFix Forum:
https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance

●      BigFix Compliance SCM Checklists:
Welcome to Wikis
<https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=enus#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists>

We hope you find this latest release of SCM content useful and effective.
Thank you!
*– The BigFix Compliance team*
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