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1.125 RHEL-10-400190

Information

RHEL 10 must enforce the audit log directory to have a mode of "0750" or less permissive to prevent unauthorized read access.

GROUP ID: V-281055RULE ID: SV-281055r1165520

If users can write to audit logs, audit trails can be modified or destroyed.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027, SRG-OS-000058-GPOS-00028, SRG-OS-000059-GPOS-00029

Solution

Configure RHEL 10 so that the audit log directories have a mode of "0750" or less permissive to prevent unauthorized read access with the following command:

$ sudo chmod 0700 /var/log/audit

Note: The correct permissions are "0700" if the directory is owned by "root"; otherwise, the correct permissions are "0750".

Restart the audit daemon with the following command for the changes to take effect:

$ sudo service auditd restart

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/26403

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-9, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000162, CCI|CCI-000163, CCI|CCI-000164, Rule-ID|SV-281055r1165520_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-10-400190, Vuln-ID|V-281055

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: ff0f859e88b1b9a11b33c1eabe712433d6c770a6ee8c15917fccf1f9a93a277a