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V-271793CAT II — Medium severitySV-271793r1092605_rule

OL 9 /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file must be owned by root.

Rule version OL09-00-002531 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

The "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file stores sensitive system configuration. Protection of this file is critical for system security.

Check

Verify that OL 9 configures ownership of the "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file with the following command:

$ sudo stat -c "%U %n" /boot/grub2/grub.cfg root /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

If "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file does not have an owner of "root", this is a finding.

Fix

Change the owner of the file /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to root by running the following command:

$ sudo chown root /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271793
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-271793r1092605_rule
Check ID
C-75843r1092089_chk
Fix ID
F-75750r1092090_fix