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V-239490

CAT II (Medium)

The SLES for vRealize must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur. The SLES for vRealize must generate audit records for all failed attempts to access files and programs.

Rule ID

SV-239490r661921_rule

STIG

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

Version

V2R2

CCIs

CCI-000172

Discussion

Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, 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 information system (e.g., module or policy filter).

Check Content

To check that the SLES for vRealize audit system collects unauthorized file accesses, run the following commands:

# grep EACCES /etc/audit/audit.rules

-a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S swapon -F exit=-EACCES
-a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S creat -F exit=-EACCES
-a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S open -F exit=-EACCES

# grep EPERM /etc/audit/audit.rules

-a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S swapon -F exit=-EPERM
-a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S creat -F exit=-EPERM
-a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S open -F exit=-EPERM

If either command lacks output, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Add the following to "/etc/audit/audit.rules": 

-a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S swapon -F exit=-EACCES
-a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S creat -F exit=-EACCES
-a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S open -F exit=-EACCES

-a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S swapon -F exit=-EPERM
-a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S creat -F exit=-EPERM
-a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S open -F exit=-EPERM

Or run the following command to implement all logging requirements:

# /etc/dodscript.sh