STIGUI
V-274858CAT II — Medium severitySV-274858r1106125_rule

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.

Rule version UBTU-20-010017 · STIG v2 · 2025-05-16

Discussion

If the "sudoers" file is not configured correctly, any user defined on the system can initiate privileged actions on the target system.

Check

Verify the operating system restricts privilege elevation to authorized personnel with the following command:

$ sudo grep -iwR 'ALL' /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d/ | grep -v '#'

If either of the following entries are returned, this is a finding:

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

Fix

Configure the operating system to restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.

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

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

Identifiers

Group ID
V-274858
Group title
SRG-OS-000373-GPOS-00156
Rule ID
SV-274858r1106125_rule
Check ID
C-78959r1106124_chk
Fix ID
F-78864r1101694_fix