V-216182

Discussion

Group-writable or world-writable user configuration files may enable malicious users to steal or modify other users' data or to gain another user's system privileges.

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The root role is required.

Ensure that the permissions on user "." files are 750 or less permissive.

# for dir in \
`logins -ox | awk -F: '($8 == "PS") { print $6 }'`; do
find ${dir}/.[A-Za-z0-9]* \! -type l \
\( -perm -0001 -o -perm -0002 -o -perm -0004 -o -perm -0020 \) -ls
done

If output is produced, this is a finding.