V-256651

Discussion

Log data is essential in the investigation of events. If log data were to become compromised, competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity would be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. In addition, access to log records provides information an attacker could use to their advantage because each event record might contain communication ports, protocols, services, trust relationships, user names, etc. Satisfies: SRG-APP-000118-WSR-000068, SRG-APP-000119-WSR-000069, SRG-APP-000120-WSR-000070

Check Content

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# find /opt/vmware/var/log/lighttpd/ -xdev -type f -a '(' -perm -o+w -o -not -user root -o -not -group root ')' -exec ls -ld {} \;

If any files are returned, this is a finding.