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V-281044

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 10 must be configured so that cron configuration files directories are group-owned by root.

Rule ID

SV-281044r1184618_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000213

Discussion

Service configuration files enable or disable features of their respective services, which if configured incorrectly can lead to insecure and vulnerable configurations. Therefore, service configuration files should be owned by the correct group to prevent unauthorized changes.

Check Content

Verify RHEL 10 group ownership of all cron configuration files with the following command:

$ stat -c "%G %n" /etc/cron*
root /etc/cron.d
root /etc/cron.daily
root /etc/cron.deny
root /etc/cron.hourly
root /etc/cron.monthly
root /etc/crontab
root /etc/cron.weekly

If any crontab is not group-owned by "root", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure RHEL 10 so that any cron configuration file directories are group-owned by "root" with the following command:

$ sudo chgrp root [cron config file]