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RHEL 9 must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>If the "sudoers" file is not configured correctly, any user defined on the system can initiate privileged actions on the target system.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-258087r991589_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Remove the following entries from the /etc/sudoers file or configuration file under /etc/sudoers.d/:

ALL     ALL=(ALL) ALL
ALL     ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL