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MD7X-00-012400 MongoDB must off-load audit data to a separate log management facility; this must be continuous and in near real time for systems with a network connection to the storage facility and weekly or more often for standalone systems.
Information
Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration.Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity.
The DBMS may write audit records to database tables, to files in the file system, to other kinds of local repository, or directly to a centralized log management system. Whatever the method used, it must be compatible with off-loading the records to the centralized system.
Solution
To specify auditLog, or a centralized system log (which is recommended), configure these in the mongod.conf configuration file:auditLog:
destination: syslog
Refer to documentation for additional configuration: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/v7.0/core/auditing/
Allocate sufficient space to the storage volume hosting the file identified in the MongoDB configuration "auditLog.path" to support audit file peak demand.
See Also
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA MongoDB Enterprise Advanced 7.x STIG v1r1
Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
References: 800-53|AU-4(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001851, Rule-ID|SV-265953r1028645_rule, STIG-ID|MD7X-00-012400, Vuln-ID|V-265953
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: 5d08668ad8909daa7ded5a6cf2ba3f13bd490b9874b32e38989ee69010cd4024