Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 • Release: 7 Benchmark Date: 05 Jan 2026

CAT II V-257840 RHEL-09-215085

RHEL 9 must have the nss-tools package installed.

Documentable No
Rule ID SV-257840r991589_rule
CCI References
CCI-000366

Discussion

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Install the "nss-tools" package to install command-line tools to manipulate the NSS certificate and key database.

Check Procedure

Verify that RHEL 9 has the nss-tools package installed with the following command:

$ dnf list --installed nss-tools

Example output:

nss-tools.x86_64          3.71.0-7.el9

If the "nss-tools" package is not installed, this is a finding.

Fix Action

The nss-tools package can be installed with the following command:
 
$ sudo dnf install nss-tools