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PHTN-67-000056 - The Photon operating system must audit the execution of privileged functions.

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 the use of privileged functions is one way to detect such misuse and identify the risk from insider threats and the advanced persistent threat.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000327-GPOS-00127, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215

Solution

At the command line, execute the following command to obtain a list of setuid files:

# find / -xdev -perm -4000 -type f -o -perm -2000 -type f

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

Replace <setuid_path> with each path found in the first command.

-a always,exit -F path=<setuid_path> -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged

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_Y23M07_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL, AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AC-6(9), 800-53|AU-12c., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000172, CCI|CCI-002234, Rule-ID|SV-239127r856045_rule, STIG-ID|PHTN-67-000056, Vuln-ID|V-239127

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: c0ee07448e01606cd152fc26a0da7be37d4300caf28c20b5b176c7fccde1a3b9