Vulnerability Discussion

If a world-writable directory is not owned by root, sys, bin, or an application User Identifier (UID), unauthorized users may be able to modify files created by others.

The only authorized public directories are the temporary directories supplied with the system or those designed to be temporary file repositories. The setting is normally reserved for directories used by the system and by users for temporary file storage, (e.g., /tmp), and for directories requiring global read/write access.

Check

The following command will discover and print world-writable directories that are not owned by a system account, given the assumption that only system accounts have a UID lower than 1000. Run it once for each local partition [PART]:

$ sudo find [PART] -xdev -type d -perm -0002 -uid +999 -print

If there is output, this is a finding.

Fix

Investigate any world-writable directories that are not owned by a system account and then delete the files or assign them to an appropriate group.