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V-281043

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 10 must be configured so that cron configuration file directories are owned by root.

Rule ID

SV-281043r1184617_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-002696

Discussion

Service configuration files enable or disable features of their respective services, which if configured incorrectly could lead to insecure and vulnerable configurations. Therefore, service configuration files must be owned by the correct group to prevent unauthorized changes.

Check Content

Verify RHEL 10 ownership of all cron configuration files with the following command:

$ stat -c "%U %n" /etc/cron*
root /etc/cron.d
root /etc/cron.daily
root /etc/cron.deny
root /etc/cron.hourly
root /etc/cron.monthly
root /etc/crontab
root /etc/cron.weekly

If any crontab is not owned by root, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure RHEL 10 so that cron configuration file directories are owned by root with the following command:

$ sudo chown root [cron config file]