V-278385

Discussion

Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident, or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the application (e.g., process, module). Certain application functionalities may be audited as well. The list of audited events is the set of events for which audits are to be generated. This set of events is typically a subset of the list of all events for which the system can generating audit records. DOD has defined the list of events for which NGINX will provide an audit record generation capability as the following: (i) Successful and unsuccessful attempts to access, modify, or delete privileges, security objects, security levels, or categories of information (e.g., classification levels); (ii) Access actions, such as successful and unsuccessful logon attempts, privileged activities or other system level access, starting and ending time for user access to the system, concurrent logons from different workstations, successful and unsuccessful accesses to objects, all program initiations, and all direct access to the information system; and (iii) All account creation, modification, disabling, and termination actions. Satisfies: SRG-APP-000089, SRG-APP-000080, SRG-APP-000091, SRG-APP-000095, SRG-APP-000096, SRG-APP-000097, SRG-APP-000098, SRG-APP-000099, SRG-APP-000100, SRG-APP-000374, SRG-APP-000375, SRG-APP-000492, SRG-APP-000493, SRG-APP-000494, SRG-APP-000495, SRG-APP-000496, SRG-APP-000497, SRG-APP-000498, SRG-APP-000499, SRG-APP-000500, SRG-APP-000501, SRG-APP-000502, SRG-APP-000507

Check Content

Determine the path to NGINX config file(s):

nginx -qT | grep "# configuration"
# configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

Note: The default NGINX configuration is "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf", though various files may also be included.

cat <path to config>

Verify that $server_name, $server_addr, $remote_addr, $remote_user, $time_local, $status, $request, $request_id, $http_user_agent, $http_x_forwarded_for, and/or any organization defined variables are included in any custom log_format directive.

If a custom log_format is defined and does not include a minimum of $server_name, $server_addr, $remote_addr, $remote_user, $time_local, $status, $request, $request_id, $http_user_agent, and $http_x_forwarded_for, this is a finding.