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Permissions on user home directories must be 750 or less permissive.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-48133 SOL-11.1-070020 SV-61005r1_rule Medium
Description
Group-writable or world-writable user home directories may enable malicious users to steal or modify other users' data or to gain another user's system privileges.
STIG Date
Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide 2017-01-27

Details

Check Text ( None )
None
Fix Text (F-51741r1_fix)
The root role is required.

Change the permissions on users' directories to 750 or less permissive.

# chmod 750 [directory name]