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RHEL 10 must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-281207RHEL-10-600520SV-281207r1166573_ruleCCI-002696medium
Description
If the "sudoers" file is not configured correctly, any user defined on the system can initiate privileged actions on the target system.
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-281207r1166573_chk)

Verify RHEL 10 restricts privilege elevation to authorized personnel with the following command: $ sudo grep -riw ALL /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d/ | grep -v "#" If the either of the following entries is returned, this is a finding: ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL ALL ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Fix Text (F-85673r1166572_fix)

Configure RHEL 10 to restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel. 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