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V-239637

CAT II (Medium)

The SLES for vRealize audit system must be configured to audit file deletions.

Rule ID

SV-239637r662362_rule

STIG

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

Version

V2R2

CCIs

CCI-000172

Discussion

If the SLES for vRealize system is not configured to audit certain activities and write them to an audit log, it is more difficult to detect and track system compromises and damages incurred during a system compromise.

Check Content

Check SLES for vRealize audit configuration to determine if file and directory deletions are audited:

# cat /etc/audit.rules /etc/audit/audit.rules | grep -e "-a exit,always" | grep -i "rmdir"

If no results are returned or the results do not contain "-S rmdir", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Add the following to the "/etc/audit/audit.rules" file in order to capture file and directory deletion events:

-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S rmdir -S rm
-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S rmdir -S rm