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The system and user default umask must be 077.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-808 GEN002560 SV-45205r1_rule Medium
Description
The umask controls the default access mode assigned to newly created files. An umask of 077 limits new files to mode 700 or less permissive. Although umask can be represented as a 4-digit number, the first digit representing special access modes is typically ignored or required to be 0. This requirement applies to the globally configured system defaults and the user defaults for each account on the system.
STIG Date
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v11 for System z 2016-12-20

Details

Check Text ( C-42553r1_chk )
Check global initialization files for the configured umask value.
Procedure:
# grep umask /etc/*

Check local initialization files for the configured umask value.
Procedure:
# cut -d: -f6 /etc/passwd |xargs -n1 -IDIR find DIR -name ".*" -type f -maxdepth 1 -exec grep umask {} \;

If the system and user default umask is not 077, this a finding.

Note: If the default umask is 000 or allows for the creation of world-writable files this becomes a Severity Code I finding.
Fix Text (F-38601r1_fix)
Edit local and global initialization files that contain "umask" and change them to use 077 instead of the current value.