RHEL-10-400165 - RHEL 10 must enforce group ownership of audit logs by "root" or by a restricted logging group to prevent unauthorized read access.

Information

Unauthorized disclosure of audit records can reveal system and configuration data to attackers, thus compromising its confidentiality.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027, SRG-OS-000058-GPOS-00028, SRG-OS-000059-GPOS-00029, SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

Solution

Configure RHEL 10 to prevent unauthorized read access by ensuring that audit logs are group-owned by root or by a restricted logging group.

Change the group of the directory of "/var/log/audit" to be owned by a correct group.

Identify the group that is configured to own audit logs:

$ sudo grep -P '^[ ]*log_group[ ]+=.*$' /etc/audit/auditd.conf

Change the ownership to that group:

$ sudo chgrp ${GROUP} /var/log/audit

Item Details

Audit Name: DISA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 STIG v1r1

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 39eb236acab2efb5bbceddd88114b988e3512fc414dfc55b4e21a5d1b9b960ab

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RHEL-10-400165 - RHEL 10 must enforce group ownership of audit logs by "root" or by a restricted logging group to prevent unauthorized read access.

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