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O121-C2-007600 - The DBMS must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish where the events occurred.

Warning! Audit Deprecated

This audit has been deprecated and will be removed in a future update.

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Information

Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control includes: timestamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, file names involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked.

Without sufficient information establishing where the audit events occurred, investigation into the cause of events is severely hindered.

Solution

Configure the DBMS's auditing to audit standard and organization-defined auditable events, the audit record to include where the event occurred. If preferred, use a third-party or custom tool.

If using a third-party product, proceed in accordance with the product documentation. If using Oracle's capabilities, proceed as follows.

If Standard Auditing is used:
Use this process to ensure auditable events are captured:

ALTER SYSTEM SET AUDIT_TRAIL=<audit trail type> SCOPE=SPFILE;

Audit trail type can be 'OS', 'DB', 'DB,EXTENDED', 'XML' or 'XML,EXTENDED'.
After executing this statement, it may be necessary to shut down and restart the Oracle database.

If Unified Auditing is used:
To ensure auditable events are captured:
Link the oracle binary with uniaud_on, and then restart the database.
 Oracle Database Upgrade Guide describes how to enable unified auditing.

For more information on the configuration of auditing, refer to the following documents:
'Auditing Database Activity' in the Oracle Database 2 Day + Security Guide:
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/TDPSG/tdpsg_auditing.htm#TDPSG50000
'Monitoring Database Activity with Auditing' in the Oracle Database Security Guide:
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/DBSEG/part_6.htm#CCHEHCGI
'DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT' in the Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference:
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/ARPLS/d_audit_mgmt.htm#ARPLS241
Oracle Database Upgrade Guide:
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/UPGRD/afterup.htm#UPGRD52810

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Oracle_Database_12c_V2R8_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000132, Rule-ID|SV-220272r879565_rule, STIG-ID|O121-C2-007600, STIG-Legacy|SV-76123, STIG-Legacy|V-61633, Vuln-ID|V-220272

Plugin: OracleDB

Control ID: fb1c913cb2000aacceed0f645e24e2326a9282599cb8319c434c863d66ed7784