SLEM 5 must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
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| medium | V-261375 | SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227 | SLEM-05-432025 | SV-261375r996562_rule | 2024-06-04 | 1 |
| Description |
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| 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. |
| ℹ️ Check |
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| 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 |
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| Remove the following entries from the "/etc/sudoers" file: ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL ALL ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL |