V-254176

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 Nutanix AOS generates audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the following commands occur.

Check that the following system call is being audited by performing the following command to check the file system rules in "/etc/audit/audit.rules":

$ sudo grep -iw /usr/bin/crontab /etc/audit/audit.rules
If the output is not -a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/crontab -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged, this is a finding.