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1.131 UBTU-22-653070

Information

The operating system must permit only authorized accounts to own the audit configuration files.

GROUP ID: V-260602
RULE ID: SV-260602r958444

Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel may be able to prevent the auditing of critical events.

Misconfigured audits may degrade the system's performance by overwhelming the audit log. Misconfigured audits may also make it more difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one.

Solution

Configure "/etc/audit/audit.rules", "/etc/audit/rules.d/*", and "/etc/audit/auditd.conf" files to be owned by root by using the following command:

$ sudo chown -R root /etc/audit/audit.rules /etc/audit/auditd.conf /etc/audit/rules.d/*

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/22168

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-12b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000171, CSCv7|14.6, Rule-ID|SV-260602r958444_rule, STIG-ID|UBTU-22-653070, Vuln-ID|V-260602

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: d9a6fb369fda5d12f16d972c655e02bc6b8523a0c3b89d1a929d4dbbdd429856