OL 8 operating systems booted with United Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) must require authentication upon booting into single-user mode and maintenance.

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OL 8 operating systems booted with United Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) must require authentication upon booting into single-user mode and maintenance.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-248537	OL08-00-010140	SV-248537r779177_rule		High

Description
If the system does not require valid authentication before it boots into single-user or maintenance mode, anyone who invokes single-user or maintenance mode is granted privileged access to all files on the system. GRUB 2 is the default boot loader for OL 8 and is designed to require a password to boot into single-user mode or modify the boot menu.

STIG	Date
Oracle Linux 8 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-02-19

Details

Check Text ( C-51971r779175_chk )
For systems that use BIOS, this is not applicable. Determine if an encrypted password is set for the grub superusers account. On systems that use UEFI, use the following command: $ sudo grep -iw grub2_password /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/user.cfg GRUB2_PASSWORD=grub.pbkdf2.sha512.[password_hash] If the grub superusers account password does not begin with "grub.pbkdf2.sha512", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-51925r779176_fix)
Configure the system to require an encrypted grub bootloader password for the grub superusers account with the grub2-setpassword command, which creates/overwrites the "/boot/efi/EFI/redhat/user.cfg" file. Generate an encrypted grub2 password for the grub superusers account with the following command: $ sudo grub2-setpassword Enter password: Confirm password: