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V-271476

CAT II (Medium)

OL 9 must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.

Rule ID

SV-271476r1091140_rule

STIG

Oracle Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R5

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

If the sudoers file is not configured correctly, any user defined on the system can initiate privileged actions on the target system.

Check Content

Verify that OL 9 restricts privilege elevation to authorized personnel with the following command:

$ sudo sh -c 'grep -iw ALL /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d/*'

If the either of the following entries are returned, this is a finding:
ALL     ALL=(ALL) ALL
ALL     ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Fix Text

Remove the following entries from the /etc/sudoers file or configuration file under /etc/sudoers.d/:

ALL     ALL=(ALL) ALL
ALL     ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL