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Linux: Duplicated UIDs

🗓️ 26 Mar 2019 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbHType 
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This script checks for duplicated UIDs in the '/etc/passwd' file and provides a solution to assign new UIDs for duplicated users

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if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.109832");
  script_version("2022-08-31T10:10:28+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2022-08-31 10:10:28 +0000 (Wed, 31 Aug 2022)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2019-03-26 08:11:19 +0100 (Tue, 26 Mar 2019)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"0.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"qod", value:"97");

  script_name("Linux: Duplicated UIDs");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
  script_family("Policy");
  script_dependencies("compliance_tests.nasl", "policy_linux_file_content.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("Compliance/Launch");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-etcpasswd-file-format/");
  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"CIS Distribution Independent Linux v2.0.0: 6.2.16 Ensure no duplicate UIDs exist (Scored)");
  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"CIS CentOS Linux 8 Benchmark v1.0.0: 6.2.15 Ensure no duplicate UIDs exist (Scored)");
  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"CIS Controls Version 7: 16 Account Monitoring and Control");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Duplicated UIDs can occur after modifying '/etc/passwd'. Users
with same UIDs are not only granted same privileges, but they are considered as the same person.

This script tests if any duplicated UIDs are listed in '/etc/passwd'.");
  exit(0);
}

include("policy_functions.inc");

cmd = "cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1,3";
title = "No duplicated UIDs";
solution = "Assign new UIDs for duplicated user. Check files and directories owned by the user.";
test_type = "SSH_Cmd";
default = "None";

if(get_kb_item("policy/linux/file_content/error")){
  value = "Error";
  compliant = "incomplete";
  comment = "No SSH connection to host";
}else if(!content = get_kb_item("Policy/linux//etc/passwd/content")){
  value = "Error";
  compliant = "incomplete";
  comment = "Can not read /etc/passwd";
}else{
  uids_array = make_array();

  foreach line (split(content, keep:FALSE)){
    fields = split(line, sep:":", keep:FALSE);
    user_name = fields[0];
    uid = fields[2];
    if(uids_array[uid]){
      value += ", " + uid + ": " + user_name + " " + uids_array[uid];
    }else{
      uids_array[uid] = user_name;
    }
  }

  if(value){
    value = str_replace(string:value, find:", ", replace:"", count:1);
    compliant = "no";
  }else{
    value = "None";
    compliant = "yes";
  }
}

policy_reporting(result:value, default:default, compliant:compliant, fixtext:solution,
  type:test_type, test:cmd, info:comment);
policy_set_kbs(type:test_type, cmd:cmd, default:default, solution:solution, title:title,
  value:value, compliant:compliant);

exit(0);

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