The pcscd service on RHEL 9 must be active.

STIG ID: RHEL-09-611180 |  SRG: SRG-OS-000375-GPOS-00160 |  Severity: medium |  CCI:  | Vulnerability Id: V-258125

Vulnerability Discussion

The information system ensures that even if the information system is compromised, that compromise will not affect credentials stored on the authentication device.

The daemon program for pcsc-lite and the MuscleCard framework is pcscd. It is a resource manager that coordinates communications with smart card readers and smart cards and cryptographic tokens that are connected to the system.

Check

To enable the pcscd service run the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now pcscd

Fix

Verify that the "pcscd" service is active with the following command:

$ systemctl is-active pcscd

active

If the pcscdservice is not active, this is a finding.