Check: APPL-14-001003
Apple macOS 14 (Sonoma) STIG:
APPL-14-001003
(in versions v1 r2 through v1 r1)
Title
The macOS system must enable security auditing. (Cat II impact)
Discussion
Audit records establish what types of events have occurred, when they occurred, and which users were involved. These records aid an organization in their efforts to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. The content required to be captured in an audit record varies based on the impact level of an organization's system. Content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source addresses, destination addresses, user identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access or flow control rules invoked. The information system initiates session audits at system startup. Note: Security auditing is enabled by default on macOS. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015,SRG-OS-000038-GPOS-00016,SRG-OS-000039-GPOS-00017,SRG-OS-000040-GPOS-00018,SRG-OS-000041-GPOS-00019,SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020,SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00021,SRG-OS-000055-GPOS-00026,SRG-OS-000254-GPOS-00095,SRG-OS-000255-GPOS-00096,SRG-OS-000257-GPOS-00098,SRG-OS-000258-GPOS-00099,SRG-OS-000303-GPOS-00120,SRG-OS-000337-GPOS-00129,SRG-OS-000358-GPOS-00145,SRG-OS-000359-GPOS-00146,SRG-OS-000365-GPOS-00152,SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172,SRG-OS-000458-GPOS-00203,SRG-OS-000461-GPOS-00205,SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206,SRG-OS-000463-GPOS-00207,SRG-OS-000465-GPOS-00209,SRG-OS-000466-GPOS-00210,SRG-OS-000467-GPOS-00211,SRG-OS-000468-GPOS-00212,SRG-OS-000470-GPOS-00214,SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215,SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00216,SRG-OS-000472-GPOS-00217,SRG-OS-000473-GPOS-00218,SRG-OS-000474-GPOS-00219,SRG-OS-000475-GPOS-00220,SRG-OS-000476-GPOS-00221,SRG-OS-000477-GPOS-00222
Check Content
Verify the macOS system is configured to enable the auditd service with the following command: LAUNCHD_RUNNING=$(/bin/launchctl list | /usr/bin/grep -c com.apple.auditd) if [[ $LAUNCHD_RUNNING == 1 ]] && [[ -e /etc/security/audit_control ]]; then echo "pass" else echo "fail" fi If the result is not "pass", this is a finding.
Fix Text
Configure the macOS system to enable the auditd service with the following command: LAUNCHD_RUNNING=$(/bin/launchctl list | /usr/bin/grep -c com.apple.auditd) if [[ ! $LAUNCHD_RUNNING == 1 ]]; then /bin/launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.auditd.plist fi if [[ ! -e /etc/security/audit_control ]] && [[ -e /etc/security/audit_control.example ]];then /bin/cp /etc/security/audit_control.example /etc/security/audit_control else /usr/bin/touch /etc/security/audit_control fi
Additional Identifiers
Rule ID: SV-259454r940984_rule
Vulnerability ID: V-259454
Group Title: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015
Expert Comments
CCIs
| Number | Definition |
|---|---|
| CCI-000130 |
The information system generates audit records containing information that establishes what type of event occurred. |
| CCI-000131 |
The information system generates audit records containing information that establishes when an event occurred. |
| CCI-000132 |
The information system generates audit records containing information that establishes where the event occurred. |
| CCI-000133 |
The information system generates audit records containing information that establishes the source of the event. |
| CCI-000134 |
The information system generates audit records containing information that establishes the outcome of the event. |
| CCI-000135 |
The information system generates audit records containing the organization-defined additional, more detailed information that is to be included in the audit records. |
| CCI-000159 |
The information system uses internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records. |
| CCI-000172 |
The information system generates audit records for the events defined in AU-2 d. with the content defined in AU-3. |
| CCI-001464 |
The information system initiates session audits at system start-up. |
| CCI-001487 |
The information system generates audit records containing information that establishes the identity of any individuals or subjects associated with the event. |
| CCI-001494 |
The information system protects audit tools from unauthorized modification. |
| CCI-001495 |
The information system protects audit tools from unauthorized deletion. |
| CCI-001814 |
The Information system supports auditing of the enforcement actions. |
| CCI-001889 |
The information system records time stamps for audit records that meet organization-defined granularity of time measurement. |
| CCI-001890 |
The information system records time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). |
| CCI-001914 |
The information system provides the capability for organization-defined individuals or roles to change the auditing to be performed on organization-defined information system components based on organization-defined selectable event criteria within organization-defined time thresholds. |
| CCI-002130 |
The information system automatically audits account enabling actions. |
| CCI-002884 |
The organization audits nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions^ organization-defined audit events. |
Controls
| Number | Title |
|---|---|
| AC-2 (4) |
Automated Audit Actions |
| AU-3 |
Content Of Audit Records |
| AU-3 (1) |
Additional Audit Information |
| AU-8 |
Time Stamps |
| AU-9 |
Protection Of Audit Information |
| AU-12 |
Audit Generation |
| AU-12 (3) |
Changes By Authorized Individuals |
| AU-14 (1) |
System Start-Up |
| CM-5 (1) |
Automated Access Enforcement / Auditing |
| MA-4 (1) |
Auditing And Review |