TOSS must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-253133TOSS-04-040920SV-253133r991589_ruleCCI-000366medium
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.
STIGDate
Tri-Lab Operating System Stack (TOSS) 4 Security Technical Implementation Guide2025-05-08

Details

Check Text (C-253133r991589_chk)

Verify the "sudoers" file restricts sudo access to authorized personnel. $ sudo grep -iwr 'ALL[[:blank:]]\+ALL' /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d If the either of the following entries are returned, this is a finding: ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL ALL ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Fix Text (F-56536r825070_fix)

Remove the following entries from the sudoers file: ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL ALL ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL