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Cron and crontab directories must not have extended ACLs.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-22387 GEN003110 SV-39103r1_rule ECLP-1 Medium
Description
To protect the integrity of scheduled system jobs and to prevent malicious modification to these jobs, crontab files must be secured. ACLs on cron and crontab directories may provide unauthorized access to these directories. Unauthorized modifications to these directories or their contents may result in the addition of unauthorized cron jobs or deny service to authorized cron jobs.
STIG Date
AIX 5.3 Security Technical Implementation Guide 2013-03-26

Details

Check Text ( C-38094r1_chk )
Check the permissions of the crontab directories.

# ls -lL /var/spool/cron/crontabs
# aclget < crontab >
# aclget /var/spool/cron

Check if extended permissions are disabled. If extended permissions are not disabled, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-33356r1_fix)
Remove the extended ACL from the crontab file(s) and disable extended permissions.

#acledit /