Detections
Analytics

1.108 SLES-15-030050

Information

SUSE operating system audit records must contain information to establish what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events.

GROUP ID: V-234904
RULE ID: SV-234904r958412

Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.

Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked.

Associating event types with detected events in the SUSE operating system audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured SUSE operating system.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000038-GPOS-00016, SRG-OS-000039-GPOS-00017, SRG-OS-000040-GPOS-00018, SRG-OS-000041-GPOS-00019, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00021, SRG-OS-000051-GPOS-00024, SRG-OS-000054-GPOS-00025, SRG-OS-000122-GPOS-00063, SRG-OS-000254-GPOS-00095, SRG-OS-000255-GPOS-00096, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172

Solution

Enable the SUSE operating system auditd service by performing the following commands:

sudo systemctl enable auditd.service
sudo systemctl start auditd.service

See Also

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

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, MAINTENANCE

References: 800-53|AU-3, 800-53|AU-3(1), 800-53|AU-6(4), 800-53|AU-7(1), 800-53|AU-7a., 800-53|AU-14(1), 800-53|MA-4(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000130, CCI|CCI-000131, CCI|CCI-000132, CCI|CCI-000133, CCI|CCI-000134, CCI|CCI-000135, CCI|CCI-000154, CCI|CCI-000158, CCI|CCI-001464, CCI|CCI-001487, CCI|CCI-001876, CCI|CCI-002884, Rule-ID|SV-234904r958412_rule, STIG-ID|SLES-15-030050, Vuln-ID|V-234904

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: db47dc28e935a024d39be7b3e2c5083f9b41d2b476e9a5e2f75ef19559ebd245