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V-281103

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 10 must take appropriate action when a critical audit processing failure occurs.

Rule ID

SV-281103r1166261_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000139

Discussion

It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected. Audit processing failures include software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded.

Check Content

Verify the RHEL 10 audit service is configured to panic on a critical error with the following command:

$ sudo grep "\-f" /etc/audit/audit.rules
-f 2

If the value for "-f" is not "2", and availability is not documented as an overriding concern, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure RHEL 10 to shut down when auditing failures occur.

Add the following line to the bottom of the "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules" file:

-f 2