Rule version RHEL-10-400345 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-17
The "root" group is a highly privileged group. Furthermore, the group owner of this file should not have any access privileges anyway.
Verify RHEL 10 enforces group ownership of the "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file with the following command:
$ sudo stat -c "%G %n" /boot/grub2/grub.cfg root /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
If the "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file does not have a group owner of "root", this is a finding.
Configure RHEL 10 to enforce group ownership of the "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file.
Change the group owner of the file "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" to "root" by running the following command:
$ sudo chgrp root /boot/grub2/grub.cfg