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V-281161

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 10 must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/var/log/faillock".

Rule ID

SV-281161r1166435_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-002884 CCI-000172

Discussion

Without generating audit records specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000470-GPOS-00214, SRG-OS-000473-GPOS-00218

Check Content

Verify RHEL 10 generates audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/var/log/faillock" with the following command:

$ sudo auditctl -l | grep /var/log/faillock
-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -F path=/var/log/faillock -F perm=wa -F key=identity
-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -F path=/var/log/faillock -F perm=wa -F key=identity

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

Fix Text

Configure RHEL 10 to generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/var/log/faillock".

Add or update the following file system rule to "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules":

-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -F path=/var/log/faillock -F perm=wa -F key=identity
-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -F path=/var/log/faillock -F perm=wa -F key=identity

Restart the audit daemon with the following command for the changes to take effect:

$ sudo service auditd restart