V-250329

Discussion

Protecting log data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Depending on the log format and application, system and application log tools may provide the only means to manipulate and manage application and system log data. Therefore, it is imperative that access to log tools be controlled and protected from unauthorized access. Application servers provide a web- and/or a command line-based management functionality for managing the application server log capabilities. In addition, subsets of log tool components may be stored on the file system as jar or xml configuration files. The application server must ensure that in addition to protecting any web-based log tools, any file system-based tools are protected as well.

Check Content

As a user with local file access to the /opt/IBM/WebSphere/Liberty/bin folder, verify the following audit tool files have the correct file permissions of 755.

binaryLog
auditUtility

If the file permissions for these files are not set to 755, this is a finding.