V-258171

Discussion

Without the capability to restrict the roles and individuals that can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel may be able to prevent the auditing of critical events. Misconfigured audits may degrade the system's performance by overwhelming the audit log. Misconfigured audits may also make it more difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one.

Check Content

Verify that the files in directory "/etc/audit/rules.d/" and "/etc/audit/auditd.conf" file have a mode of "0640" or less permissive with the following command:

$ sudo find /etc/audit/rules.d/ /etc/audit/audit.rules /etc/audit/auditd.conf -type f -exec stat -c "%a %n" {} \;

600 /etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules
640 /etc/audit/audit.rules
640 /etc/audit/auditd.conf

If the audit configuration files have a mode more permissive than those shown, this is a finding.