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V-237641CAT II — Medium severitySV-237641r1101904_rule

RHEL 8 must restrict privilege elevation to authorized personnel.

Rule version RHEL-08-010382 · STIG v2 · 2026-05-20

Discussion

The sudo command allows a user to execute programs with elevated (administrator) privileges. It prompts the user for their password and confirms your request to execute a command by checking a file, called sudoers. If the "sudoers" file is not configured correctly, any user defined on the system can initiate privileged actions on the target system.

Check

Verify the "sudoers" file restricts sudo access to authorized personnel.

$ sudo grep -iwR 'ALL' /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d/ | grep -v '#'

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 sudoers file: ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL ALL ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Identifiers

Group ID
V-237641
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-237641r1101904_rule
Check ID
C-40860r1101903_chk
Fix ID
F-40823r646892_fix