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V-271476CAT II — Medium severitySV-271476r1091140_rule

OL 9 must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.

Rule version OL09-00-000232 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

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 that OL 9 restricts privilege elevation to authorized personnel with the following command:

$ sudo sh -c 'grep -iw ALL /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d/*'

If the either of the following entries are returned, this is a finding: ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL ALL ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Fix

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

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

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271476
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-271476r1091140_rule
Check ID
C-75526r1091138_chk
Fix ID
F-75433r1091139_fix