Detections
Analytics

1.120 OL08-00-010700

Information

All OL 8 world-writable directories must be owned by root, sys, bin, or an application user.

GROUP ID: V-248636RULE ID: SV-248636r991589

If a world-writable directory is not owned by root, sys, bin, or an application User Identifier (UID), unauthorized users may be able to modify files created by others.

The only authorized public directories are the temporary directories supplied with the system or those designed to be temporary file repositories. The setting is normally reserved for directories used by the system and by users for temporary file storage, (e.g., /tmp), and for directories requiring global read/write access.

Solution

Investigate any world-writable directories that are not owned by a system account and then delete the files or assign them to an appropriate group.

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23791

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-248636r991589_rule, STIG-ID|OL08-00-010700, Vuln-ID|V-248636

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 7b31f51ce589190e8907d6a300a73fb6f5819b1f04e685feca94056900abaa56