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Ensure That the Group Names Are Unique

🗓️ 07 May 2025 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AGType 
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# METADATA
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.130375");
  script_version("2025-11-21T05:40:28+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-11-21 05:40:28 +0000 (Fri, 21 Nov 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2025-05-07 11:45:54 +0000 (Wed, 07 May 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"0.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"qod", value:"97");

  script_name("Ensure That the Group Names Are Unique");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Policy");
  script_dependencies("compliance_tests.nasl", "compliance_os_check.nasl");

  script_mandatory_keys("Compliance/Launch", "policy/ssh/login/euleros_eulerosvirtual_openeuler_hce");

  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"EulerOS Baseline: openEuler Security Configuration Baseline (v1.0.0): 2. Secure Access: 2.1 Users: 2.1.11 Ensure That the Group Names Are Unique (Requirement)");
  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"EulerOS Virtual: openEuler Security Configuration Baseline (v1.0.0): 2. Secure Access: 2.1 Users: 2.1.11 Ensure That the Group Names Are Unique (Requirement)");
  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"HCE Linux (Huawei Cloud EulerOS): openEuler Security Configuration Baseline (v1.0.0): 2. Secure Access: 2.1 Users: 2.1.11 Ensure That the Group Names Are Unique (Requirement)");
  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"openEuler Baseline: openEuler Security Configuration Baseline (v1.0.0): 2. Secure Access: 2.1 Users: 2.1.11 Ensure That the Group Names Are Unique (Requirement)");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The user group names in /etc/group must be unique. If user
group names in /etc/group are duplicate, only the GID of the first user group in /etc/group is
valid.

If the administrator runs commands such as useradd or groupadd to add users or user groups,
duplicate user group names typically do not exist. However, if the administrator directly modifies
the /etc/group file due to misoperations, faults may occur.");

  exit(0);
}

include("ssh_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
include("policy_reporting_module.inc");

title = "Ensure That the Group Names Are Unique";

solution = "Analyze the cause why a user group name is repeatedly used, manually delete the faulty
user group from the /etc/group file, and determine whether to run the groupadd command to add the
correct group name as required.

# groupadd test";

check_type = "SSH_Cmd";

action = 'Run the command in the terminal:
# cat /etc/group | grep -vE "^\\s*#" | awk -F ":" \'{a[\\$1]++}END{for(i in a){if(a[i]!=1){print i, a[i]}}}\'';

expected_value = 'The output should be empty';

# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# CONNECTION CHECK
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

if(!get_kb_item("login/SSH/success") || !sock = ssh_login_or_reuse_connection()){

  report_ssh_error(title: title,
                   solution: solution,
                   action: action,
                   expected_value: expected_value,
                   check_type: check_type);
  exit(0);
}

# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# CHECK : Verify command cat /etc/group | grep -vE "^\s*#" | awk -F ":" '{a[\$1]++}END{for(i in a){if(a[i]!=1){print i, a[i]}}}'
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

step_cmd = 'cat /etc/group | grep -vE "^\\s*#" | awk -F ":" \'{a[\\$1]++}END{for(i in a){if(a[i]!=1){print i, a[i]}}}\'';
actual_value = ssh_cmd(socket:sock, cmd:step_cmd, return_errors:TRUE, return_linux_errors_only:TRUE);

if(eregmatch(string: actual_value, pattern:"(No such file or directory|Permission denied|Command not found|Segmentation fault|service not found|is not running|syntax error near unexpected token|syntax error: unexpected end of file)", icase: TRUE)){
  compliant = "incomplete";
  comment = "Something went wrong during the audit check. Please try again.";
}else if(!actual_value){
  compliant = "yes";
  comment = "Check passed";
}else{
  compliant = "no";
  comment = "Check failed";
}

# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# REPORT
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

target = get_kb_item("policy/ssh/login/os-release");
comment = "Target: " + target + "\n" + comment;

report_audit(action: action,
             actual_value: actual_value,
             expected_value: expected_value,
             is_compliant: compliant,
             solution: solution,
             check_type: check_type,
             title: title,
             comment: comment);

exit(0);

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