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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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Ensure Privileged Escalated Commands Cannot Execute Other Commands - sudo NOEXEC
Ensure Privileged Escalated Commands Cannot Execute Other Commands - sudo NOEXEC
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Ensure Privileged Escalated Commands Cannot Execute Other Commands - sudo NOEXEC
High Severity
The sudo
NOEXEC
tag, when specified, prevents user executed commands from executing other commands, like a shell for example. This should be enabled by making sure that the
NOEXEC
tag exists in
/etc/sudoers
configuration file or any sudo configuration snippets in
/etc/sudoers.d/
.