GEN003100 - Cron and crontab directories must have mode 0755 or less permissive.

Information

To protect the integrity of scheduled system jobs and to prevent malicious modification to these jobs, crontab files must be secured.

Solution

Change the mode of the crontab directory.
# chmod 0755 /var/spool/cron/crontabs

See Also

http://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_STIG_Library_2015_07.zip

Item Details

Audit Name: DISA AIX 5.3 STIG v1r2

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000225, CSCv6|3.1, Rule-ID|SV-27342r1_rule, STIG-ID|GEN003100, Vuln-ID|V-979

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 5199d7d2732d5d4da9f2b95f0cd41eb52731d20bf830232b3e8632e1e9c88141