Details

If special privilege accounts are compromised, the accounts could provide privileges to execute malicious commands on a system.

Solution

Remove any special privilege accounts, such as shutdown and halt, from the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files using the ‘userdel’ or ‘system-config-users’ commands.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Oracle_Linux_5_V2R1_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Access Control, Identification and Authentication.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|AC-6
• 800-53|IA-2
• CAT|I
• CCI|CCI-000225
• CCI|CCI-000764
• Rule-ID|SV-218168r603259_rule
• STIG-ID|GEN000000-LNX00320
• STIG-Legacy|SV-62797
• STIG-Legacy|V-4268
• Vuln-ID|V-218168

Source

• Tenable.com/audits