All FTP users must have a default umask of 077.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-12011	GEN005040	SV-38263r1_rule	ECCD-1 ECCD-2	Medium

Description
The umask controls the default access mode assigned to newly created files. An umask of 077 limits new files to mode 700 or less permissive. Although umask is stored as a 4-digit number, the first digit representing special access modes is typically ignored or required to be zero.

STIG	Date
HP-UX 11.23 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-07-02

Details

Check Text ( C-36591r1_chk )
Check the umask setting for the "ftp" user. # su - ftp $ umask If the umask value does not return 077, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-31958r1_fix)
Edit the initialization files for the ftp user and set the umask to 077.