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Verify Group Who Owns The Open vSwitch Configuration Database

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Check if the group owner of /etc/openvswitch/conf.db is hugetlbfs on architectures other than s390x or openvswitch on s390x.

Rationale

CNI (Container Network Interface) files consist of a specification and libraries for writing plugins to configure network interfaces in Linux containers, along with a number of supported plugins. Allowing writeable access to the files could allow an attacker to modify the networking configuration potentially adding a rogue network connection.

ID
xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_file_groupowner_ovs_conf_db
Severity
Medium
References
Updated