Finding ID | Version | Rule ID | IA Controls | Severity |
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V-979 | GEN003100 | SV-37470r1_rule | ECLP-1 | Medium |
Description |
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To protect the integrity of scheduled system jobs and to prevent malicious modification to these jobs, crontab files must be secured. |
STIG | Date |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide | 2014-01-09 |
Check Text ( C-36136r1_chk ) |
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Check the mode of the crontab directories. Procedure: # ls -ld /var/spool/cron # ls -ld /etc/cron.d /etc/crontab /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly /etc/cron.monthly /etc/cron.weekly or # ls -ld /etc/cron*|grep -v deny If the mode of any of the crontab directories is more permissive than 0755, this is a finding. |
Fix Text (F-31381r1_fix) |
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Change the mode of the crontab directories. # chmod 0755 |