The aixmibd daemon must be disabled on AIX.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-215366	AIX7-00-003061	SV-215366r958478_rule		Medium

Description

The aixmibd daemon is a dpi2 sub-agent which manages a number of MIB variables. To prevent attacks this daemon should not be enabled unless there is no alternative.

STIG	Date
IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-08-16

Details

Check Text (C-16564r294549_chk)

From the command prompt, execute the following command:
# grep "^start[[:blank:]]/usr/sbin/aixmibd" /etc/rc.tcpip

If there is any output from the command, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-16562r294550_fix)

In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "aixmibd" entry by running command:
# chrctcp -d aixmibd