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OL 8 must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.

Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-248583 OL08-00-010382 SV-248583r1101874_rule   Medium
Description
The sudo command allows a user to execute programs with elevated (administrator) privileges. It prompts the user for their password and confirms your request to execute a command by checking a file, called sudoers. If the "sudoers" file is not configured correctly, any user defined on the system can initiate privileged actions on the target system.
STIG Date
Oracle Linux 8 Security Technical Implementation Guide 2025-05-13

Details

Check Text (C-52017r1101873_chk)
Verify the "sudoers" file restricts sudo access to authorized personnel.
$ sudo grep -iwR 'ALL' /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d/ | grep -v '#'

If the either of the following entries are returned, this is a finding:
ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL
ALL ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
Fix Text (F-51971r779314_fix)
Remove the following entries from the sudoers file:
ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL
ALL ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL