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Ensure Users Re-Authenticate for Privilege Escalation - sudo NOPASSWD
Ensure Users Re-Authenticate for Privilege Escalation - sudo NOPASSWD
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Ensure Users Re-Authenticate for Privilege Escalation - sudo NOPASSWD
Medium Severity
The sudo
NOPASSWD
tag, when specified, allows a user to execute commands using sudo without having to authenticate. This should be disabled by making sure that the
NOPASSWD
tag does not exist in
/etc/sudoers
configuration file or any sudo configuration snippets in
/etc/sudoers.d/
.