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1.428 RHEL-09-654190

Information

Successful/unsuccessful uses of the poweroff command in RHEL 9 must generate an audit record.

GROUP ID: V-258212
RULE ID: SV-258212r1045421

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

Solution

Configure the audit system to generate an audit event for any successful/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

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

$ sudo augenrules --load

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/22008

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-12c., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000172, Rule-ID|SV-258212r1045421_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-09-654190, Vuln-ID|V-258212

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 100f6667c51ce76a26ad5439fd53aedf572a51729493b175c5d266294978965a