RHEL-10-500210 - RHEL 10 must notify the system administrator (SA) and/or information system security officer (ISSO) (at a minimum) of an audit processing failure.

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It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected.

Audit processing failures include software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded.

This requirement applies to each audit data storage repository (i.e., distinct information system component where audit records are stored), the centralized audit storage capacity of organizations (i.e., all audit data storage repositories combined), or both.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022, SRG-OS-000343-GPOS-00134

Solution

Configure RHEL 10 to notify the SA and/or ISSO (at a minimum) of an audit processing failure.

Edit the following line in "/etc/audit/auditd.conf" to ensure administrators are notified via email for those situations:

action_mail_acct = root

Restart the audit daemon with the following command for the changes to take effect:

$ sudo service auditd restart

Item Details

Audit Name: DISA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 STIG v1r1

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 30c5b3f67a8ff1059be0291135e37f71018381d88a57264c4faf182a8ed3d44e

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RHEL-10-500210 - RHEL 10 must notify the system administrator (SA) and/or information system security officer (ISSO) (at a minimum) of an audit processing failure.

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