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1.45 OL09-00-000232

Information

OL 9 must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.

GROUP ID: V-271476
RULE ID: SV-271476r1091140

If the sudoers file is not configured correctly, any user defined on the system can initiate privileged actions on the target system.

Solution

Remove the following entries from the /etc/sudoers file or configuration file under /etc/sudoers.d/:

ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL
ALL ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/27024

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-271476r1091140_rule, STIG-ID|OL09-00-000232, Vuln-ID|V-271476

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 463a02d0db0aa126c8721b86fdbb83a78845b79b3759813e630d02f24977f165