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V-256515

CAT II (Medium)

The Photon operating system "/var/log" directory must be owned by root.

Rule ID

SV-256515r958566_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R4

CCIs

CCI-001314

Discussion

Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an organization's operational state and can provide sensitive information to an unprivileged attacker.

Check Content

At the command line, run the following command:

# stat -c "%n is owned by %U and group owned by %G" /var/log 

If the "/var/log directory" is not owned by root, this is a finding.

Fix Text

At the command line, run the following command:

# chown root:root /var/log