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← Back to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

V-258151

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 9 audit package must be installed.

Rule ID

SV-258151r1045298_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R8

CCIs

CCI-000130CCI-000131CCI-000132CCI-000133CCI-000134CCI-000135CCI-000154CCI-000158CCI-000159CCI-000169CCI-000172CCI-001464CCI-001487CCI-003938CCI-001875CCI-001876CCI-001877CCI-001878CCI-001879CCI-001880CCI-001881CCI-001882CCI-001889CCI-001914CCI-002884CCI-001814

Discussion

Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. Associating event types with detected events in audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured RHEL 9 system. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000038-GPOS-00016, SRG-OS-000039-GPOS-00017, SRG-OS-000040-GPOS-00018, SRG-OS-000041-GPOS-00019, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00021, SRG-OS-000051-GPOS-00024, SRG-OS-000054-GPOS-00025, SRG-OS-000122-GPOS-00063, SRG-OS-000254-GPOS-00095, SRG-OS-000255-GPOS-00096, SRG-OS-000337-GPOS-00129, SRG-OS-000348-GPOS-00136, SRG-OS-000349-GPOS-00137, SRG-OS-000350-GPOS-00138, SRG-OS-000351-GPOS-00139, SRG-OS-000352-GPOS-00140, SRG-OS-000353-GPOS-00141, SRG-OS-000354-GPOS-00142, SRG-OS-000358-GPOS-00145, SRG-OS-000365-GPOS-00152, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000475-GPOS-00220, SRG-OS-000055-GPOS-00026

Check Content

Verify that the RHEL 9 audit service package is installed.

Check that the audit service package is installed with the following command:

$ dnf list --installed audit

Example output:

audit-3.0.7-101.el9_0.2.x86_64

If the "audit" package is not installed, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Install the audit service package (if the audit service is not already installed) with the following command:

$ sudo dnf install audit