JUNI-ND-000390 - The Juniper router must be configured to protect audit information from unauthorized deletion.

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Information

Audit information includes all information (e.g., audit records, audit settings, and audit reports) needed to successfully audit information system activity.

If audit data were to become compromised, then forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity is impossible to achieve.

To ensure the veracity of audit data, the network device must protect audit information from unauthorized deletion. This requirement can be achieved through multiple methods, which will depend upon system architecture and design. Some commonly employed methods include: ensuring log files receive the proper file system permissions utilizing file system protections, restricting access, and backing up log data to ensure log data is retained.

Network devices providing a user interface to audit data will leverage user permissions and roles identifying the user accessing the data and the corresponding rights the user enjoys in order to make access decisions regarding the deletion of audit data.

NOTE: Nessus has provided the target output to assist in reviewing the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Configure one or more classes as shown in the example below whose users will not be permitted to delete files or make changes to logging parameters.

[edit system]
set login class JR_ENGINEER permissions all
set login class JR_ENGINEER deny-configuration '(system syslog)'
set login class JR_ENGINEER deny-commands '(file delete)'

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Juniper_Router_Y21M02_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-2(7), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000164, Rule-ID|SV-101221r1_rule, STIG-ID|JUNI-ND-000390, Vuln-ID|V-91121

Plugin: Juniper

Control ID: 91064a74f4317fcc55597aa756b7e6e6c0626abf6bb7efcd78a61eac95f1cdb9