Uninstall nftables package

Classification:

compliance

Framework:

Control:

Description

nftables is a subsystem of the Linux kernel providing filtering and classification of network packets/datagrams/frames and is the successor to iptables. The nftables package can be removed with the following command:


$ apt-get remove nftables

Rationale

Running both firewalld and nftables may lead to conflict.

Remediation

Shell script

The following script can be run on the host to remediate the issue.

# CAUTION: This remediation script will remove nftables
# from the system, and may remove any packages
# that depend on nftables. Execute this
# remediation AFTER testing on a non-production
# system!

DEBIAN\_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get remove -y "nftables"

Ansible playbook

The following playbook can be run with Ansible to remediate the issue.

- name: Ensure nftables is removed
 package:
 name: nftables
 state: absent
 tags:
 - disable\_strategy
 - low\_complexity
 - low\_disruption
 - medium\_severity
 - no\_reboot\_needed
 - package\_nftables\_removed