MADB-10-012400 - MariaDB 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 stand-alone 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.

MariaDB writes audit records 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.

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

Solution

To set up the audit logs to write to sylog:

Edit the mariadb-enterprise.cnf file. Add the following under the [mariadb] section:

server_audit_output_type = 'syslog'

After the .cnf file is updated and saved, the mariadb database service must be restarted.

Item Details

Audit Name: DISA MariaDB Enterprise 10.x v2r4 DB

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Plugin: MySQLDB

Control ID: b431b29fe78a58134cac4b7427ff45038c77460b765aa7eea3cfb76d89362f37

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MADB-10-012400 - MariaDB 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 stand-alone systems.

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