Title

RHEL 8 must label all off-loaded audit logs before sending them to the central log server. (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. Enriched logging is needed to determine who, what, and when events occur on a system. Without this, determining root cause of an event will be much more difficult. When audit logs are not labeled before they are sent to a central log server, the audit data will not be able to be analyzed and tied back to the correct system.

Check Content

Verify the RHEL 8 Audit Daemon is configured to label all off-loaded audit logs, with the following command: $ sudo grep "name_format" /etc/audit/auditd.conf name_format = hostname If the "name_format" option is not "hostname", "fqd", or "numeric", or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Edit the /etc/audit/auditd.conf file and add or update the "name_format" option: name_format = hostname The audit daemon must be restarted for changes to take effect.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-230394r958754_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-230394

Group Title: SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133

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