vulnerability

Scanning Diagnostics: SSH credential is configured to elevate to a non-root user

Severity
1
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/02/2021
Added
11/02/2021
Modified
11/02/2021

Description


The following information is for Scan Diagnostic purposes only, and is not indicative of a detected vulnerability.




SSH Credentials configured for privilege elevation should elevate to the user 'root'. Elevating to a non-root user may result in inaccurate vulnerability and policy assessment results.

Solution

rapid7-diagnostics-unix-privilege-elevation-root

References

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