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1.119 AZLX-23-002245

Information

Amazon Linux 2023 must audit all uses of the sudo command.

GROUP ID: V-274112
RULE ID: SV-274112r1120324

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).

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000064-GPOS-00033, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000466-GPOS-00210, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215

Solution

Configure Amazon Linux 2023 so that the audit system generates an audit event for any successful/unsuccessful use of the "sudo" command by adding or updating the following rule in the "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules" file:

-a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/sudo -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k priv_cmd

To load the rules to the kernel immediately, use the following command:

$ sudo augenrules --load

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/26107

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, MAINTENANCE

References: 800-53|AU-3, 800-53|AU-3(1), 800-53|AU-12a., 800-53|AU-12c., 800-53|MA-4(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000130, CCI|CCI-000135, CCI|CCI-000169, CCI|CCI-000172, CCI|CCI-002884, Rule-ID|SV-274112r1120324_rule, STIG-ID|AZLX-23-002245, Vuln-ID|V-274112

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 8ad8ef0e8ba5bb0d7de3cbae1eaa907e95dbfb126481dd24933b823ce5ff44a9