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V-281086CAT II — Medium severitySV-281086r1268226_rule

RHEL 10 must enforce "root" group ownership of the "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file.

Rule version RHEL-10-400345 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

The "root" group is a highly privileged group. Furthermore, the group owner of this file should not have any access privileges anyway.

Check

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.

Fix

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

Identifiers

Group ID
V-281086
Group title
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
Rule ID
SV-281086r1268226_rule
Check ID
C-85647r1165611_chk
Fix ID
F-85552r1165612_fix