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Check: RHEL-08-030180

RHEL 8 STIG: RHEL-08-030180 (in versions v2 r1 through v1 r3)

Title

The RHEL 8 audit package must be installed. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. Associating event types with detected events in RHEL 8 audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured RHEL 8 system. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, 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-00021, SRG-OS-000051-GPOS-00024, SRG-OS-000054-GPOS-00025, SRG-OS-000122-GPOS-00063, SRG-OS-000254-GPOS-00095, SRG-OS-000255-GPOS-00096, SRG-OS-000337-GPOS-00129, SRG-OS-000348-GPOS-00136, SRG-OS-000349-GPOS-00137, SRG-OS-000350-GPOS-00138, SRG-OS-000351-GPOS-00139, SRG-OS-000352-GPOS-00140, SRG-OS-000353-GPOS-00141, SRG-OS-000354-GPOS-00142, SRG-OS-000358-GPOS-00145, SRG-OS-000365-GPOS-00152, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000475-GPOS-00220

Check Content

Verify the audit service is configured to produce audit records. Check that the audit service is installed with the following command: $ sudo yum list installed audit If the "audit" package is not installed, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the audit service to produce audit records containing the information needed to establish when (date and time) an event occurred. Install the audit service (if the audit service is not already installed) with the following command: $ sudo yum install audit

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-230411r1017217_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-230411

Group Title: SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031

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CCIs

CCIs tied to check.

Number	Definition
CCI-000169	Provide audit record generation capability for the event types the system is capable of auditing as defined in AU-2 a on organization-defined information system components.

Controls

Controls tied to check. These are derived from the CCIs shown above.

Number	Title
AU-12	Audit Generation