documentation_complete: true

title: 'Install the cron service'

description: 'The Cron service should be installed.'

rationale: 'The cron service allow periodic job execution, needed for almost all administrative tasks and services (software update, log rotating, etc.). Access to cron service should be restricted to administrative accounts only.'

severity: medium

identifiers:
    cce: ""

references:
    anssi: NT28(R50)
    nist: CM-7
