Title

Audit tools must be owned by root. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Protecting audit information also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operation on audit information. Ubuntu operating systems providing tools to interface with audit information will leverage user permissions and roles identifying the user accessing the tools and the corresponding rights the user enjoys in order to make access decisions regarding the access to audit tools. Audit tools include, but are not limited to, vendor-provided and open source audit tools needed to successfully view and manipulate audit information system activity and records. Audit tools include custom queries and report generators. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000256-GPOS-00097, SRG-OS-000257-GPOS-00098, SRG-OS-000258-GPOS-00099

Check Content

Verify the audit tools are owned by "root" to prevent any unauthorized access, deletion, or modification. Check the owner of each audit tool by running the following command: # ls -la /sbin/auditctl /sbin/aureport /sbin/ausearch /sbin/autrace /sbin/auditd /sbin/audispd /sbin/augenrules -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 97128 Jan 18 2016 /sbin/augenrules If any of the audit tools are not owned by "root", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the audit tools to be owned by "root", by running the following command: # sudo chown root [audit_tool] Replace "[audit_tool]" with each audit tool not owned by "root".

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-215051r610931_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-215051

Group Title: SRG-OS-000256-GPOS-00097

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