STIGUI
V-257791CAT II — Medium severitySV-257791r1268251_rule

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

Rule version RHEL-09-212030 · STIG v2 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

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

Check

Verify the 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-257791
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-257791r1268251_rule
Check ID
C-61532r925358_chk
Fix ID
F-61456r925359_fix