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1.110 SLES-15-030070

Information

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

GROUP ID: V-234906
RULE ID: SV-234906r958412

Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information.

At a minimum, the organization must audit the full-text recording of privileged commands. The organization must maintain audit trails in sufficient detail to reconstruct events to determine the cause and impact of compromise.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, 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 "passwd" command.

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

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

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-234906r958412_rule, STIG-ID|SLES-15-030070, Vuln-ID|V-234906

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 6a4a4afa8f86b61dbb81cccb3f1132dcc8b615808c56ea3d68eff42709580e07