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V-239475

CAT II (Medium)

The SLES for vRealize must allow only the ISSM (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be audited - ownership.

Rule ID

SV-239475r661876_rule

STIG

VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.x SLES Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R2

CCIs

CCI-000171

Discussion

Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals 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

Check the permissions of the rules files in /etc/audit:

# ls -l /etc/audit/

Note: If /etc/audit/audit.rules is a symbolic link to /etc/audit/audit.rules.STIG, then the check is only applicable to /etc/audit/audit.rules.STIG.

If the ownership is not set to "root", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Change the ownership of the /etc/audit/audit.rules.STIG, the /etc/audit/audit.rules.ORIG, and the /etc/audit/audit.rules files (if not a symbolic link):

# chown root /etc/audit/audit.rules.STIG
# chown root /etc/audit/audit.rules.ORIG
# if [ -f /etc/audit/audit.rules ]; then chown root /etc/audit/audit.rules; fi

Or run the following command to implement all logging requirements:

# /etc/dodscript.sh