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V-256523

CAT II (Medium)

The Photon operating system must protect audit tools from unauthorized modification and deletion.

Rule ID

SV-256523r991558_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R4

CCIs

CCI-001494 CCI-001495

Discussion

Protecting audit information includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operations on audit information. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000257-GPOS-00098, SRG-OS-000258-GPOS-00099

Check Content

At the command line, run the following command:

# stat -c "%n is owned by %U and group owned by %G and permissions are %a" /usr/sbin/auditctl /usr/sbin/auditd /usr/sbin/aureport /usr/sbin/ausearch /usr/sbin/autrace

If any file is not owned by root or group-owned by root or permissions are more permissive than "750", this is a finding.

Fix Text

At the command line, run the following command for each file returned for user and group ownership:

# chown root:root <file>

At the command line, run the following command for each file returned for file permissions:

# chmod 750 <file>