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1.218 RHEL-10-500630

Information

RHEL 10 must generate audit records for successful and unsuccessful uses of the "poweroff" command.

GROUP ID: V-281149RULE ID: SV-281149r1166399

Misuse of the "poweroff" command may cause availability issues for the system.

Solution

Configure RHEL 10 to generate audit records upon successful and unsuccessful uses of the "poweroff" command by adding or updating the following rule in the "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules" file:

-a always,exit -F path=/usr/sbin/poweroff -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k privileged-poweroff

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-12c., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000172, Rule-ID|SV-281149r1166399_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-10-500630, Vuln-ID|V-281149

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 9e7d4eec57ac58b46d7571349696bd327c874750aff19bc2f70f5b3097bc3c69