Title

Amazon Linux 2023 must encrypt via the gtls driver the transfer of audit records off-loaded onto a different system or media from the system being audited via rsyslog. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity. Support for both internet and Unix domain sockets enables this utility to support both local and remote logging. Coupling this utility with "gnutls" (a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS, and DTLS protocols) creates a method to securely encrypt and off-load auditing.

Check Content

Verify Amazon Linux 2023 uses the gtls driver to encrypt audit records off-loaded onto a different system or media from the system being audited with the following command: $ sudo grep -i '$DefaultNetstreamDriver' /etc/rsyslog.conf /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf /etc/rsyslog.conf:$DefaultNetstreamDriver ossl If the value of the "$DefaultNetstreamDriver" option is not set to "ossl" or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure Amazon Linux 2023 to use the ossl driver to encrypt offloaded audit records by setting the following options in "/etc/rsyslog.conf" or "/etc/rsyslog.d/[customfile].conf": $DefaultNetstreamDriver ossl

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-274079r1120724_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-274079

Group Title: SRG-OS-000479-GPOS-00224

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