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1.180 UBTU-24-901250

Information

The operating system must configure the audit tools to be group-owned by root.

GROUP ID: V-270823
RULE ID: SV-270823r1068393

Protecting audit information also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operation on audit information.

Operating systems providing tools to interface with audit information will leverage user permissions, roles identifying the user accessing the tools, and the corresponding user rights to make decisions regarding access to audit tools.

Audit tools include, but are not limited to, vendor-provided and open source audit tools needed to successfully view and manipulate audit information system activity and records. Audit tools include custom queries and report generators.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000257-GPOS-00098, SRG-OS-000256-GPOS-00097

Solution

Configure the audit tools on the operating system to be protected from unauthorized access by setting the file group as root using the following command:

$ sudo chown :root [audit_tool]

Replace "[audit_tool]" with each audit tool not group-owned by root.

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/22775

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-9, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001493, CCI|CCI-001494, CSCv7|14.6, Rule-ID|SV-270823r1068393_rule, STIG-ID|UBTU-24-901250, Vuln-ID|V-270823

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 819fa9a2140f58ca57b1cc34c7dc75b8438b96b24495dffcf0d95e8449076fbe