All public directories must be owned by root or an application account.

From Apple OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) Workstation Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-74157r1_rule All public directories must be owned by root or an application account.

Vulnerability discussion

All public directories must be owned by root, the local admin user, or an application account. Directory owners have permission to delete any files contained in that directory, even if the files are owned by other user accounts. By setting the owner to an administrator or application account, regular users will not be permitted to delete each other's files.

Check content

To display all directories that are writable by all and not owned by root, run the following command: sudo find / -type d -perm +o+w -not -uid 0 If anything is returned, and those directories are not owned by a local admin or application account, this is a finding.

Fix text

To change the ownership of any finding, run the following command: sudo find / -type d -perm +o+w -not -uid 0 -exec chown root {} \;

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