Mount Remote Filesystems with nosuid
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Add the nosuid
option to the fourth column of /etc/fstab
for the line which controls mounting of
any NFS mounts.
Rationale
NFS mounts should not present suid binaries to users. Only vendor-supplied suid executables should be installed to their default location on the local filesystem.
- ID
- xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_mount_option_nosuid_remote_filesystems
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Ansible
- name: Gather the package facts
package_facts:
manager: auto
tags:
- NIST-800-53-AC-6
- NIST-800-53-AC-6(1)
Remediation - Shell Script
# Remediation is applicable only in certain platforms
if rpm --quiet -q kernel; then
vfstype_points=()
readarray -t vfstype_points < <(grep -E "[[:space:]]nfs[4]?[[:space:]]" /etc/fstab | awk '{print $2}')