Oracle Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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Version

V2 · R1

CurrentPublished Fri Jan 22 2021

Files in cron script directories must have mode 0700 or less permissive.

Oracle Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

Files in cron script directories must have mode 0700 or less permissive.

Description

Discussion Text

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

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Objective

V-218437

Rule

SV-218437r603259_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

GEN003080-2

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Check the mode of scripts in cron job directories.
# ls -lL /etc/cron.daily/
# ls -lL /etc/cron.hourly/
# ls -lL /etc/cron.monthly/
# ls -lL /etc/cron.weekly/

If any cron script has a mode more permissive than 0700, this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Change the mode of the cron scripts.
# chmod 0700 /etc/cron.daily/* /etc/cron.hourly/* /etc/cron.monthly/* /etc/cron.weekly/*

STIG check 275 of 571 in the Oracle Linux 5 STIG checklist

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