Details

Restricting permissions will protect the files from unauthorized modification.

Solution

Change the owner of public directories to ‘root’ or an application account using the following command:
# chown root

Note: Replace ‘root’ with an application user as necessary.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_IBM_AIX_7-x_V2R3_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|CM-5(6)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001499
• CSCv6|3.1
• Rule-ID|SV-215183r508663_rule
• STIG-ID|AIX7-00-001018
• STIG-Legacy|SV-101573
• STIG-Legacy|V-91475
• Vuln-ID|V-215183

Source

• Tenable.com/audits