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V-281207CAT II — Medium severitySV-281207r1166573_rule

RHEL 10 must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.

Rule version RHEL-10-600520 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-17

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 RHEL 10 restricts privilege elevation to authorized personnel with the following command:

$ sudo grep -riw ALL /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d/ | grep -v "#"

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

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

Fix

Configure RHEL 10 to restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.

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-281207
Group title
SRG-OS-000445-GPOS-00199
Rule ID
SV-281207r1166573_rule
Check ID
C-85768r1166571_chk
Fix ID
F-85673r1166572_fix