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Cron and crontab directories must be group-owned by root, sys, bin or other.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-981 GEN003140 SV-38548r1_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. Failure to give group-ownership of cron or crontab directories to a system group provides the designated group and unauthorized users with the potential to access sensitive information or change the system configuration which could weaken the system's security posture.
STIG Date
HP-UX 11.23 Security Technical Implementation Guide 2015-12-02

Details

Check Text ( C-36454r1_chk )
Check the group owner of the crontab directories.
# ls -lLd /var/spool/cron/crontabs

If the directory is not group-owned by root, sys, bin or other, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-31793r1_fix)
Change the group owner of the crontab directories to root, sys, bin or other.

# chown root /var/spool/cron/crontabs