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V-261442

CAT II (Medium)

SLEM 5 must generate audit records for all uses of the "ssh-agent" command.

Rule ID

SV-261442r996733_rule

STIG

SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro (SLEM) 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R4

CCIs

CCI-000130CCI-000169CCI-002884CCI-000172

Discussion

Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information. At a minimum, the organization must audit the full-text recording of privileged commands. The organization must maintain audit trails in sufficient detail to reconstruct events to determine the cause and impact of compromise.

Check Content

Verify SLEM 5 generates an audit record for all uses of the "ssh-agent" command with the following command:

     > sudo auditctl -l | grep -w '/usr/bin/ssh-agent'
     -a always,exit -S all -F path=/usr/bin/ssh-agent -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=-1 -F key=privileged-ssh-agent

If the command does not return any output or the returned line is commented out, this is a finding.

Note: The "key=" value is arbitrary and can be different from the example output above.

Fix Text

Configure SLEM 5 to generate an audit record for all uses of the "ssh-agent" command.

Add or modify the following line in the "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules" file:

-a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/ssh-agent -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k privileged-ssh-agent

To reload the rules file, restart the audit daemon:

     > sudo systemctl restart auditd.service

or issue the following command:

     > sudo augenrules --load