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V-281156

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 10 must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/etc/group".

Rule ID

SV-281156r1166420_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000018CCI-000130CCI-000135CCI-000169CCI-000015CCI-002884CCI-000172CCI-001403CCI-001404CCI-001405CCI-002130

Discussion

In addition to auditing new user and group accounts, these watches will alert the system administrator(s) to any modifications. Any unexpected users, groups, or modifications must be investigated for legitimacy. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000004-GPOS-00004, SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000304-GPOS-00121, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000470-GPOS-00214, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215, SRG-OS-000239-GPOS-00089, SRG-OS-000240-GPOS-00090, SRG-OS-000241-GPOS-00091, SRG-OS-000303-GPOS-00120, SRG-OS-000466-GPOS-00210, SRG-OS-000476-GPOS-00221

Check Content

Verify RHEL 10 generates audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/etc/group" with the following command:

$ sudo auditctl -l | egrep '(/etc/group)'
-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -F path=/etc/group -F perm=wa -F key=identity
-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -F path=/etc/group -F perm=wa -F key=identity

If the command does not return a line, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure RHEL 10 to generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/etc/group".

Add or update the following file system rule to "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules":

-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -F path=/etc/group -F perm=wa -F key=identity
-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -F path=/etc/group -F perm=wa -F key=identity

Restart the audit daemon with the following command for the changes to take effect:

$ sudo service auditd restart