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RHEL 8 must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-237641 RHEL-08-010382 SV-237641r646893_rule Medium
Description
The sudo command allows a user to execute programs with elevated (administrator) privileges. It prompts the user for their password and confirms your request to execute a command by checking a file, called sudoers. If the "sudoers" file is not configured correctly, any user defined on the system can initiate privileged actions on the target system.
STIG Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Security Technical Implementation Guide 2022-09-07

Details

Check Text ( C-40860r646891_chk )
Verify the "sudoers" file restricts sudo access to authorized personnel.
$ sudo 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 (F-40823r646892_fix)
Remove the following entries from the sudoers file:
ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL
ALL ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL