Title

The operating system must audit all account enabling actions. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Once an attacker establishes access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to enable a new or disabled account. Auditing account modification actions provides logging that can be used for forensic purposes. To address access requirements, many operating systems can be integrated with enterprise-level authentication/access/auditing mechanisms that meet or exceed access control policy requirements.

Check Content

Verify the operating system automatically audits account enabling actions. If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the operating system to automatically audit account enabling actions.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-203690r851756_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-203690

Group Title: SRG-OS-000303

Expert Comments

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