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V-282629CAT II — Medium severitySV-282629r1200867_rule

The TOSS 5 /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file must be owned by root.

Rule version TOSS-05-000096 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

The "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file stores sensitive system configurations. Protecting this file is critical for system security.

Check

Verify the ownership of the "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file using 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 using the following command:

$ sudo chown root /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Identifiers

Group ID
V-282629
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-282629r1200867_rule
Check ID
C-87190r1200865_chk
Fix ID
F-87095r1200866_fix