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The SUSE operating system must audit any script or executable called by cron as root or by any privileged user.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-274879SLES-15-030015SV-274879r1106564_ruleCCI-000172medium
Description
Any script or executable called by cron as root or by any privileged user must be owned by that user, must have the permissions 755 or more restrictive, and have no extended rights that allow any nonprivileged user to modify the script or executable.
STIGDate
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-02-19

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 5 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (15) 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.

END-01Endpoint Device Management (EDM)
1.00
END-04Malicious Code Protection (Anti-Malware)
1.00
END-06Endpoint File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)
1.00
MON-01Continuous Monitoring
1.00
MON-01.1Intrusion Detection & Prevention Systems (IDS & IPS)
1.00
MON-01.3Inbound & Outbound Communications Traffic
1.00
MON-01.4System Generated Alerts
1.00
MON-01.7File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)
1.00
MON-01.8Security Event Monitoring
1.00
MON-03Content of Event Logs
1.00

+5 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (80) 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-12Session Termination
1.00
AC-16Security and Privacy Attributes
1.00
AC-17(1)Monitoring and Control
1.00
AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
1.00
AC-2(10)Shared and Group Account Credential Change
1.00
AC-2(11)Usage Conditions
1.00
AC-2(2)Automated Temporary and Emergency Account Management
1.00
AC-2(3)Disable Accounts
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00

+70 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

NIST 800-1710 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (2) 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.

3.3.1
1.00
3.3.2
1.00
CCI1 mapping
CCI-000172
1.00
NIST CSF 2.00 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (4) 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.

DE.CM-01
1.00
DE.CM-03
1.00
DE.CM-09
1.00
PR.PS-04
1.00

Who does this work

12 NICE work roles and 9 EC-Council certifications.

This is an inference across published mappings, not a single claim by anyone. This check maps to a control, which maps to a Cybersecurity Framework outcome, which NIST assigns to the work roles below. EC-Council separately maps its certifications to those same roles.

A certification prepares someone for a role. It is not evidence that a holder is qualified, and neither NIST nor EC-Council has stated that any certification here addresses this check.

Work-role assignments published by NIST (NICE Framework Components 2.2.0 and the CSF 2.0 OLIR crosswalk). Certification mappings published by EC-Council.

Details

Check Text (C-274879r1106564_chk)

Verify the SUSE operating system is configured to audit the execution of any system call made by cron as root or as any privileged user. > sudo auditctl -l | grep /etc/cron.d -w /etc/cron.d -p wa -k cronjobs $ sudo auditctl -l | grep /var/spool/cron -w /var/spool/cron -p wa -k cronjobs If either of these commands do not return the expected output, or the lines are commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-78885r1102127_fix)

Configure the SUSE operating system to audit the execution of any system call made by cron as root or as any privileged user. Add or update the following file system rules to "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules": auditctl -w /etc/cron.d/ -p wa -k cronjobs auditctl -w /var/spool/cron/ -p wa -k cronjobs To load the rules to the kernel immediately, use the following command: > sudo augenrules --load