Cron and crontab directories must have mode 0755 or less permissive.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-227748	GEN003100	SV-227748r603266_rule		Medium

Description
To protect the integrity of scheduled system jobs and to prevent malicious modification to these jobs, crontab files must be secured.

STIG	Date
Solaris 10 X86 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2020-12-04

Details

Check Text ( C-29910r488828_chk )
Check the mode of the crontab directory. # ls -ld /var/spool/cron/crontabs If the mode of the crontab directory is more permissive than 0755, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-29898r488829_fix)
Change the mode of the crontab directory. # chmod 0755 /var/spool/cron/crontabs