SLEM 5 must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.
Overview
| Finding ID | Version | Rule ID | IA Controls | Severity |
| V-261375 | SLEM-05-432025 | SV-261375r996562_rule | CCI-000366 | medium |
| Description | ||||
| The sudo command allows a user to execute programs with elevated (administrator) privileges. It prompts the user for their password and confirms the 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 | |||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro (SLEM) 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide | 2025-05-08 | |||
Details
Check Text (C-261375r996562_chk)
Verify the "sudoers" file restricts sudo access to authorized personnel with the following command:
> sudo grep -iw 'ALL' /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d/*
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
If "ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL" or "ALL ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL" entries are returned, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-65012r995991_fix)
Remove the following entries from the "/etc/sudoers" file:
ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL
ALL ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL