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Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and sys...

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Unknown OS Found: Chimera Linux Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

CISOfy/lynis#1785 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
[STRG-1846] False positive: FireWire check flags systems with no 1394 hardware Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

CISOfy/lynis#1782 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[LOGG-2154] Rsyslog `target=` detection is incomplete Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

CISOfy/lynis#1771 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
[KRNL-5830] Always false-positive on Raspberry Pi OS: two kernel flavours per version means "newest on disk" is never the running kernel Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

CISOfy/lynis#1770 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
PKGS-7388 Can't find security repository Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

CISOfy/lynis#1761 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 1, 2026
GPG key has expired Open

needs-confirmation

CISOfy/lynis#1758 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 21, 2026
Fedora Lifecycle Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

CISOfy/lynis#1752 · 3 comments · Opened May 28, 2026
Unknown OS found : KDE Neon Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

CISOfy/lynis#1749 · Opened May 24, 2026
Unknown OS found: TUXEDO OS Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

CISOfy/lynis#1742 · 1 comment · Opened May 15, 2026
Unknown OS report - Fedora Aurora Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

CISOfy/lynis#1738 · Opened May 1, 2026
HTTP-6708 excessively slow on modest nginx configurations with ModSecurity Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

CISOfy/lynis#1737 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
CRYP-7902 excessively slow on Linux 6.x kernels with haveged running Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

CISOfy/lynis#1736 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Gentoo not detected again? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

CISOfy/lynis#1734 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 26, 2026
SSH-7408 refine SSHD forwarding tests Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

CISOfy/lynis#1727 · Opened Mar 7, 2026
Sangoma FreePBX SO detection Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

CISOfy/lynis#1726 · Opened Mar 4, 2026
Almalinux unknown EOL Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

CISOfy/lynis#1723 · Opened Feb 23, 2026
NETW-3032 ARP monitoring detection fails on systemd-based systems Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

CISOfy/lynis#1722 · Opened Feb 9, 2026
FIRE-4512: Does not check for ip6tables rules Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

CISOfy/lynis#1721 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 4, 2026
Improve cisofy.com/lynis/controls/PKGS-7346 how to display and purge packages Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

CISOfy/lynis#1709 · Opened Jan 6, 2026
Inaccurate test in SHLL-6230 Open

needs-confirmation

CISOfy/lynis#1707 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 4, 2026
Minor typo, does not affect functionality - db/tests.db TIME-3128 Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 65/100

CISOfy/lynis#1704 · Opened Jan 2, 2026
Red "warning" 'hard/soft' configuration in /etc/security/limits.conf [ ENABLED ] Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

CISOfy/lynis#1703 · Opened Jan 1, 2026
doas-related tests should not be limited to OpenBSD systems only Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

CISOfy/lynis#1701 · Opened Dec 31, 2025
Test KRNL-5830 incorrectly reports "Reboot of system is most likely needed" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

CISOfy/lynis#1700 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 24, 2025
/usr/bin/lynis: line 206: /usr/share/lynis/include/consts: Permission denied Open

information-needed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

CISOfy/lynis#1698 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 13, 2025
Ntpdate didn't recognize? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

CISOfy/lynis#1696 · Opened Dec 10, 2025
Suggestions for server on a PC. Open

information-needed

CISOfy/lynis#1695 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 10, 2025
--forensics argument isn't taken into account Open

enhancement

CISOfy/lynis#1692 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 29, 2025
[SSH-7408] OpenSSH ClientAliveInterval should not be eq to 0 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

CISOfy/lynis#1687 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 18, 2025
correct wrong ru translate Open

needs-confirmation waiting-for-pull-request

CISOfy/lynis#1685 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 16, 2025
Distribute Lynis deb repo info via Debian External Repositories Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

CISOfy/lynis#1675 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 25, 2025
Firewall tests add information about nftables in console not just in logs Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

CISOfy/lynis#1674 · Opened Oct 24, 2025
Add support for grub2-bls Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

CISOfy/lynis#1669 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 12, 2025
[FIRE-4508] Incorrect iptables policy parsing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

CISOfy/lynis#1665 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 28, 2025
AUTH-9252 describe "safe" permissions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

CISOfy/lynis#1664 · Opened Sep 16, 2025
Unknown OS detection for Secureblue Open

needs-confirmation waiting-for-pull-request

CISOfy/lynis#1663 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 3, 2025
Add TuxedoOS as known OS Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

CISOfy/lynis#1660 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2025
Oracle Linux end-of-life dates in DB Open

needs-confirmation waiting-for-pull-request

CISOfy/lynis#1654 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 4, 2025
Unknown OS detection for CachyOS Open

waiting-for-pull-request

CISOfy/lynis#1644 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 16, 2025
Unknown OS detection for BlackArch Linux in /etc/os-release Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

CISOfy/lynis#1643 · Opened Jul 15, 2025
rpm-sequoia rejects CISOfy GPG key due to “No binding signature” policy error Open

external cause needs-confirmation

CISOfy/lynis#1638 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 13, 2025
FILE-7524 - Permissions check is incorrect in some edge cases Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

CISOfy/lynis#1637 · Opened Jun 12, 2025
PKGS-7388 - Can't find any security repository Open

waiting-for-pull-request

CISOfy/lynis#1636 · 5 comments · 5 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Function/test: [OS Detection] Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

CISOfy/lynis#1632 · Opened May 17, 2025
NETW-2706 DNSSEC test is broken (Fedora 41) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

CISOfy/lynis#1631 · 1 comment · Opened May 16, 2025
Behavior changed for parameters parsing between v3.0.7 and v3.1.4 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

CISOfy/lynis#1630 · Opened May 7, 2025
ip firewall on FreeBSD Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

CISOfy/lynis#1628 · Opened May 2, 2025
BOOT-5264 ignore services Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 57/100

CISOfy/lynis#1627 · Opened Apr 29, 2025
Parsing report.dat Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

CISOfy/lynis#1626 · Opened Apr 27, 2025
PKGS-7388 (Check security repository in Debian/ubuntu apt sources.list file) bug #576 regression Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

CISOfy/lynis#1625 · Opened Apr 27, 2025

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