V-240054

Discussion

Log data is essential in the investigation of events. If log data were to become compromised, then competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity would be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. In addition, access to log records provides information an attacker could potentially use to their advantage since each event record might contain communication ports, protocols, services, trust relationships, user names, etc.

Check Content

At the command prompt, execute the following command:

ls -la /var/log/vmware/vcac/vcac-config.log

If the log file has permissions more permissive than "640", this is a finding.