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1.110 AZLX-23-002200

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Amazon Linux 2023 audit tools must be group-owned by root.

GROUP ID: V-274103RULE ID: SV-274103r1120297

Protecting audit information also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operation on audit information.

Operating systems providing tools to interface with audit information will leverage user permissions and roles identifying the user accessing the tools and the corresponding rights the user enjoys to make access decisions regarding the access to audit tools.

Audit tools include, but are not limited to, vendor-provided and open source audit tools needed to successfully view and manipulate audit information system activity and records. Audit tools include custom queries and report generators.

Solution

Configure Amazon Linux 2023 audit tools to be group-owned by "root" by running the following command:

$ sudo chgrp root [audit_tool]

Replace "[audit_tool]" with each audit tool not group-owned by "root".

See Also

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

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-9, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001493, Rule-ID|SV-274103r1120297_rule, STIG-ID|AZLX-23-002200, Vuln-ID|V-274103

Plugin: Unix

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