The anonymous FTP account must be configured to use chroot or a similarly isolated environment.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-4388	GEN005020	SV-35108r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
If an anonymous FTP account does not use a chroot or similarly isolated environment, the system may be more vulnerable to exploits against the FTP service. Such exploits could allow an attacker to gain shell access to the system and view, edit, or remove sensitive files.

STIG	Date
HP-UX 11.23 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2015-12-02

Details

Check Text ( C-36590r2_chk )

Is FTP installed? # ls -lL /usr/lbin/ftpd If ftpd is not installed, this is not a finding. If ftpd is installed, determine if there is an anonymous ftp user configured in /etc/passwd. # cat /etc/passwd | egrep -c "^ftp|^anonymous" The /etc/passwd file, home directory entry for the anonymous FTP user should appear as the following example: ftp:4rL2xXxDatENY:509:159::/home/ftp/./:/usr/bin/false If there is an anonymous ftp user configured in /etc/passwd, determine if the ftp/anonymous user's home directory entry in the /etc/passwd file configured for chroot? # cat /etc/passwd | egrep "^ftp|^anonymous" | cut -f 6,6 -d ":" A dot (.) in field 6 of the FTP /etc/passwd file determines where the chroot will be performed. In the above example, the new root directory is /home/ftp. If an anonymous ftp user is found and the above command does not return an absolute path with a home directory of "dot" (see the above example), this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-31957r2_fix)
Using the HP-SMH, configure the anonymous FTP service to operate in a chroot environment.