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Severity

Version

V1 · R2

CurrentPublished Fri Jul 22 2016

All run control scripts must have no extended ACLs.

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

All run control scripts must have no extended ACLs.

Description

Discussion Text

If the startup files are writable by other users, the startup files could be modified to insert malicious commands.

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Objective

V-22353

Rule

SV-26000r1_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

GEN001590

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Verify run control scripts have no extended ACLs.
# ls -lL /etc/rc* /etc/init.d
If the permissions include a "+", the file has an extended ACL and this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Remove the extended ACL from the run control script(s).

STIG check 192 of 630 in the VMware ESX 3 Server STIG checklist

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