PHTN-67-000012 - The Photon operating system must be configured to audit the execution of privileged functions - uid 32

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Information

Misuse of privileged functions, either intentionally or unintentionally by authorized users, or by unauthorized external entities that have compromised information system accounts, is a serious and ongoing concern and can have significant adverse impacts on organizations. Auditing all actions by superusers is one way to detect such misuse and identify the risk from insider threats and the advanced persistent threat.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172

Solution

Open /etc/audit/rules.d/audit.STIG.rules with a text editor and add the following lines:

-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S execve -C uid!=euid -F euid=0 -k execpriv
-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S execve -C uid!=euid -F euid=0 -k execpriv
-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S execve -C gid!=egid -F egid=0 -k execpriv
-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S execve -C gid!=egid -F egid=0 -k execpriv

At the command line, execute the following command:

# /sbin/augenrules --load

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_6-7_Y22M04_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000135, CCI|CCI-002884, Rule-ID|SV-239084r821354_rule, STIG-ID|PHTN-67-000012, Vuln-ID|V-239084

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: d4dcc7c52d80532b202fdfff0c41f7cefca7aa638869b256d3c387cba4bd8a80