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1.138 SLES-15-030490

Information

The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the passmass command.

GROUP ID: V-234948
RULE ID: SV-234948r958412

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-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215

Solution

Configure the SUSE operating system to generate an audit record for all uses of the "passmass" command.

Add or update the following rules in the "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules" file:

-a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/passmass -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged-passmass

To reload the rules file, restart the audit daemon

sudo systemctl restart auditd.service

or issue the following command:

sudo augenrules --load

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23779

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, MAINTENANCE

References: 800-53|AU-3, 800-53|AU-12a., 800-53|AU-12c., 800-53|MA-4(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000130, CCI|CCI-000169, CCI|CCI-000172, CCI|CCI-002884, Rule-ID|SV-234948r958412_rule, STIG-ID|SLES-15-030490, Vuln-ID|V-234948

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 3ce6201dd96eecc4152edeaf4243194d76f7acf48d233a2cbdfaad69d8f0cd84