Title

The Cisco ASA must be configured to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify administrator privileges occur. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the network device (e.g., module or policy filter).

Check Content

Review the Cisco ASA configuration to verify it is compliant with this requirement. The configuration should look similar to the example below. logging enable logging buffered informational Note: The ASA will log all EXEC-mode commands. If the Cisco ASA is not configured to generate log records when administrator privileges are modified, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the Cisco ASA to generate log records when account privileges are modified as shown in the example below. ASA(config)# logging enable ASA(config)# logging buffered informational ASA(config)# end

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-239933r879866_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-239933

Group Title: SRG-APP-000495-NDM-000318

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