Title

Successful/unsuccessful uses of the "su" command in TOSS must generate an audit record. (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 information system (e.g., module or policy filter). The "su" command allows a user to run commands with a substitute user and group ID.

Check Content

Verify TOSS generates audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the "su" command by performing the following command to check the file system rules in "/etc/audit/audit.rules": $ sudo grep -w /usr/bin/su /etc/audit/audit.rules -a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/su -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k privileged If the command does not return a line, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure TOSS to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the "su" command occur by adding or updating the following rule in "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules": -a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/su -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k privileged The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-253044r991579_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-253044

Group Title: SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215

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