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MD8X-00-000400 - MongoDB must provide audit record generation for DOD-defined auditable events within all DBMS/database components.

Information

Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one.

Audit records can be generated from various components within the DBMS (e.g., process, module). Certain specific application functionalities may be audited as well. The list of audited events is the set of events for which audits are to be generated. This set of events is typically a subset of the list of all events for which the system is capable of generating audit records.

DOD has defined the list of events for which the DBMS will provide an audit record generation capability as the following:

(i) Successful and unsuccessful attempts to access, modify, or delete privileges, security objects, security levels, or categories of information (e.g., classification levels);

(ii) Access actions, such as successful and unsuccessful logon attempts, privileged activities, or other system-level access, starting and ending time for user access to the system, concurrent logons from different workstations, successful and unsuccessful accesses to objects, all program initiations, and all direct access to the information system; and

(iii) All account creation, modification, disabling, and termination actions.

Organizations may define additional events requiring continuous or ad hoc auditing.

Satisfies: SRG-APP-000080-DB-000063, SRG-APP-000089-DB-000064, SRG-APP-000090-DB-000065, SRG-APP-000091-DB-000066, SRG-APP-000091-DB-000325, SRG-APP-000092-DB-000208, SRG-APP-000095-DB-000039, SRG-APP-000096-DB-000040, SRG-APP-000097-DB-000041, SRG-APP-000098-DB-000042, SRG-APP-000099-DB-000043, SRG-APP-000100-DB-000201, SRG-APP-000101-DB-000044, SRG-APP-000381-DB-000361, SRG-APP-000492-DB-000332, SRG-APP-000492-DB-000333, SRG-APP-000494-DB-000344, SRG-APP-000494-DB-000345, SRG-APP-000495-DB-000326, SRG-APP-000495-DB-000327, SRG-APP-000495-DB-000328, SRG-APP-000495-DB-000329, SRG-APP-000496-DB-000334, SRG-APP-000496-DB-000335, SRG-APP-000498-DB-000346, SRG-APP-000498-DB-000347, SRG-APP-000499-DB-000330, SRG-APP-000499-DB-000331, SRG-APP-000501-DB-000336, SRG-APP-000501-DB-000337, SRG-APP-000502-DB-000348, SRG-APP-000502-DB-000349, SRG-APP-000503-DB-000350, SRG-APP-000503-DB-000351, SRG-APP-000504-DB-000354, SRG-APP-000504-DB-000355, SRG-APP-000505-DB-000352, SRG-APP-000506-DB-000353, SRG-APP-000507-DB-000356, SRG-APP-000507-DB-000357, SRG-APP-000508-DB-000358, SRG-APP-000745-DB-000120, SRG-APP-000795-DB-000130

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

Solution

Edit the MongoDB configuration file (default location /etc/mongod.conf) and add a configured "auditLog" setting:

auditLog:
 destination: file
 format: BSON
 path: <mongodb audit log directory>/auditLog.bson

-OR-

auditLog:
 destination: syslog

Add the following entry to the MongoDB configuration file:

setParameter:
 auditAuthorizationSuccess: true

Restart the MongoDB service from the OS.

$ sudo systemctl restart mongod

Setting of auditAuthorizationSuccess enables auditing of authorization success for the authCheck action. The parameter value must be true to audit read and write operations. However, when auditAuthorizationSuccess is false, auditing has less performance impact because the audit system only logs authorization failures.

If the "auditLog" setting was present and contained a "filter:" parameter, ensure the "filter:" expression does not prevent the auditing of events that should be audited. The filter can be modified accordingly to ensure it complies. Alternatively, remove the "filter:" parameter to enable auditing for all events.

Refer to the MongoDB documentation for details of audit operations and event configuration:

https://www.mongodb.com/docs/v8.0/core/auditing/

https://www.mongodb.com/docs/v8.0/tutorial/configure-audit-filters/

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MDB_Enterprise_Advanced_8-x_V1R1_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-3, 800-53|AU-3(1), 800-53|AU-10, 800-53|AU-12a., 800-53|AU-12b., 800-53|AU-12c., 800-53|AU-14(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000130, CCI|CCI-000131, CCI|CCI-000132, CCI|CCI-000133, CCI|CCI-000134, CCI|CCI-000135, CCI|CCI-000166, CCI|CCI-000169, CCI|CCI-000171, CCI|CCI-000172, CCI|CCI-001464, CCI|CCI-001487, CCI|CCI-003821, CCI|CCI-003831, CCI|CCI-003938, Rule-ID|SV-279334r1179504_rule, STIG-ID|MD8X-00-000400, Vuln-ID|V-279334

Plugin: Unix

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