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V-281086

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 10 must enforce "root" group ownership of the "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file.

Rule ID

SV-281086r1165613_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000213

Discussion

The "root" group is a highly privileged group. Furthermore, the group owner of this file should not have any access privileges anyway.

Check Content

Verify RHEL 10 enforces group ownership of the "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file with the following command:

$ sudo stat -c "%G %n" /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
root /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

If the "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file does not have a group owner of "root", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure RHEL 10 to enforce group ownership of the "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file.

Change the group owner of the file "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" to "root" by running the following command:

$ sudo chgrp root /boot/grub2/grub.cfg