Error using CIS-CAT Pro Assessor with non-US locale on Linux systems

Problem

When using CIS-CAT Pro Assessor on a Linux target with the system language / locale set to a value different than en_US, the assessment returns an error during the execution of the stat command.

Entries similar to the following can be found in the /logs/assessor-cli.log file:

This is caused by localized variations of the file and directory return strings (such as the Portuguese diretório in the above example), which cannot be properly parsed by CIS-CAT Pro Assessor.

Solution

Temporarily switch your Linux system locale to en_US to conduct the assessment. Once the scan completes, the locale can then be changed back to its original value.

An example on doing so for Ubuntu hosts can be found at the link below:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale

Keywords; Assessor Linux locale stat language

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