The Oracle Linux operating system must be configured so that all world-writable directories are group-owned by root, sys, bin, or an application group.
Overview
Finding ID
Version
Rule ID
IA Controls
Severity
V-221748
OL07-00-021030
SV-221748r991589_rule
Medium
Description
If a world-writable directory is not group-owned by root, sys, bin, or an application Group Identifier (GID), unauthorized users may be able to modify files created by others.
The only authorized public directories are those temporary directories supplied with the system or those designed to be temporary file repositories. The setting is normally reserved for directories used by the system and by users for temporary file storage, (e.g., /tmp), and for directories requiring global read/write access.
The following command will discover and print world-writable directories that are not group-owned by a system account, given the assumption that only system accounts have a gid lower than 1000. Run it once for each local partition [PART]:
All directories in local partitions which are world-writable should be group-owned by root or another system account. If any world-writable directories are not group-owned by a system account, this should be investigated. Following this, the directories should be deleted or assigned to an appropriate group.