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Check: GEN003040

HP-UX 11.23 STIG: GEN003040 (in version v1 r8)

Title

Crontabs must be owned by root or the crontab creator. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

To protect the integrity of scheduled system jobs and prevent malicious modification to these jobs, crontab files must be secured.

Check Content

List all crontabs on the system. # ls -lL /var/spool/cron/crontabs/* If any crontab file is not owned by root or the creating user, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Change the crontab file owner to root or the crontab creator. # chown root <crontab file>

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-38250r1_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-11994

Group Title: GEN003040

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CCIs

CCIs tied to check.

Number	Definition
CCI-000225	The organization employs the concept of least privilege, allowing only authorized accesses for users (and processes acting on behalf of users) which are necessary to accomplish assigned tasks in accordance with organizational missions and business functions.

Controls

Controls tied to check. These are derived from the CCIs shown above.

Number	Title
AC-6	Least Privilege