Check: RHEL-09-654050
RHEL 9 STIG:
RHEL-09-654050
(in version v2 r3)
Title
RHEL 9 must audit all uses of the semanage command. (Cat II impact)
Discussion
Without generating audit records 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 information system (e.g., module or policy filter). When a user logs on, the auid is set to the uid of the account being authenticated. Daemons are not user sessions and have the loginuid set to -1. The auid representation is an unsigned 32-bit integer, which equals 4294967295. The audit system interprets -1, 4294967295, and "unset" in the same way. The system call rules are loaded into a matching engine that intercepts each system call made by all programs on the system. Therefore, it is very important to use system call rules only when absolutely necessary since these affect performance. The more rules, the bigger the performance hit. The performance can be helped, however, by combining system calls into one rule whenever possible. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215, SRG-OS-000463-GPOS-00207, SRG-OS-000465-GPOS-00209
Check Content
Verify that RHEL 9 is configured to audit the execution of the "semanage" command with the following command: $ sudo auditctl -l | grep semanage -a always,exit -S all -F path=/usr/sbin/semanage -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=-1 -F key=privileged-unix-update If the command does not return a line, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.
Fix Text
Configure RHEL 9 to generate audit records upon successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the "semanage" command by adding or updating the following rule in "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules": -a always,exit -F path=/usr/sbin/semanage -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k privileged-unix-update To load the rules to the kernel immediately, use the following command: $ sudo augenrules --load
Additional Identifiers
Rule ID: SV-258184r1045337_rule
Vulnerability ID: V-258184
Group Title: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015
Expert Comments
CCIs
| Number | Definition |
|---|---|
| CCI-000130 |
Ensure that audit records contain information that establishes what type of event occurred. |
| CCI-000135 |
Generate audit records containing the organization-defined additional information that is to be included in the audit records. |
| 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. |
| CCI-000172 |
Generate audit records for the event types defined in AU-2 c that include the audit record content defined in AU-3. |
| CCI-002884 |
Log organization-defined audit events for nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions. |