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Ensure That the UIDs Are Unique

🗓️ 07 May 2025 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AGType 
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The UIDs of users in /etc/passwd must be unique. In the Linuxsystem, user permissions are determined based on UIDs. If multiple users use the same UID, theseusers have the same permissions and users of the users can access each other

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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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.130376");
  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 UIDs 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: 2.1.8 Ensure That the UIDs Are Unique (Requirement)");
  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"EulerOS Virtual: openEuler Security Configuration Baseline (v1.0.0): 2. Secure Access: 2.1 Users: 2.1.8 Ensure That the UIDs 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: 2.1.8 Ensure That the UIDs Are Unique (Requirement)");
  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"openEuler Baseline: openEuler Security Configuration Baseline (v1.0.0): 2. Secure Access: 2.1 Users: 2.1.8 Ensure That the UIDs Are Unique (Requirement)");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The UIDs of users in /etc/passwd must be unique. In the Linux
system, user permissions are determined based on UIDs. If multiple users use the same UID, these
users have the same permissions and users of the users can access each other's home directories and
files created by each other, leading to unauthorized operations and information leakage.
If the administrator runs commands such as useradd to add users, duplicate UIDs typically do not
exist. However, if the administrator directly modifies the /etc/passwd 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 UIDs Are Unique";

solution = "Analyze the cause why a UID is repeatedly used, delete the faulty user, and add it
again.

# userdel -r test
# useradd test";

check_type = "SSH_Cmd";

action = 'Run the command in the terminal:
# awk -F ":" \'{uid[\\$3]++}END{for(i in uid){if(uid[i]!=1){print i, uid[i]}}}\' /etc/passwd';

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 awk -F ":" '{uid[\$3]++}END{for(i in uid){if(uid[i]!=1){print i, uid[i]}}}' /etc/passwd
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

step_cmd = 'awk -F ":" \'{uid[\\$3]++}END{for(i in uid){if(uid[i]!=1){print i, uid[i]}}}\' /etc/passwd';
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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21 Nov 2025 00:00Current
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