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V-239620

CAT II (Medium)

The SLES for vRealize must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify security objects occur.

Rule ID

SV-239620r662311_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 verify that auditing is configured for system administrator actions, run the following command: 

# auditctl -l | grep "watch=/etc/sudoers"

The result should return a rule for sudoers, such as: 

LIST_RULES: exit,always watch=/etc/sudoers perm=wa key=sudoers

If there is no output, this is a finding.

Fix Text

At a minimum, the audit system should collect administrator actions for all users and root. Add the following to the "/etc/audit/audit.rules" file: 

-w /etc/sudoers -p wa -k sudoers

OR

# /etc/dodscript.sh