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RHEL 10 must be configured so that cron configuration file directories are owned by root.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-281043RHEL-10-400130SV-281043r1184617_ruleCCI-002696medium
Description
Service configuration files enable or disable features of their respective services, which if configured incorrectly could lead to insecure and vulnerable configurations. Therefore, service configuration files must be owned by the correct group to prevent unauthorized changes.
STIGDate
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-03-11

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

CHG-06Control Functionality Verification
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (14) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-3(4)Discretionary Access Control
1.00
AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00
AU-3(1)Additional Audit Information
1.00
AU-8Time Stamps
1.00
AU-9Protection of Audit Information
1.00
CM-3(5)Automated Security Response
1.00
CM-5(1)Automated Access Enforcement and Audit Records
1.00
CM-5(6)Limit Library Privileges
1.00
CM-7(2)Prevent Program Execution
1.00

+4 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-002696
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-281043r1184617_chk)

Verify RHEL 10 ownership of all cron configuration files with the following command: $ stat -c "%U %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 owned by root, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-85509r1165483_fix)

Configure RHEL 10 so that cron configuration file directories are owned by root with the following command: $ sudo chown root [cron config file]