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RHEL-08-030710 - RHEL 8 must encrypt the transfer of audit records off-loaded onto a different system or media from the system being audited.
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.
RHEL 8 installation media provides "rsyslogd". "rsyslogd" is a system utility providing support for message logging. Support for both internet and UNIX domain sockets enables this utility to support both local and remote logging. Couple this utility with "gnutls" (which is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols), and you have a method to securely encrypt and off-load auditing.
Satisfies: SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133, SRG-OS-000479-GPOS-00224
Solution
Configure the operating system to encrypt off-loaded audit records by setting the following options in "/etc/rsyslog.conf" or "/etc/rsyslog.d/[customfile].conf":$DefaultNetstreamDriver gtls
$ActionSendStreamDriverMode 1
See Also
https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_RHEL_8_V2R7_STIG.zip
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 STIG v2r7
Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
References: 800-53|AU-4(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001851, Rule-ID|SV-230481r958754_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-08-030710, Vuln-ID|V-230481
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: 53ba96e704b76b59b05a5410a1663931be844c1a6c8955e0ff5e3aa33dcd02c7