V-235945

Discussion

Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control includes time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. In addition to logging event information, application servers must also log the corresponding dates and times of these events. Examples of event data include, but are not limited to, Java Virtual Machine (JVM) activity, HTTPD activity and application server-related system process activity.

Check Content

1. Access EM 
2. Select the domain from the navigation tree, and use the dropdown to select 'WebLogic Domain' -> 'Logs' -> 'View Log Messages'
3. Within the 'Search' panel, expand 'Selected Targets'
4. Click 'Target Log Files' icon for any of the managed server or 'Application Deployment' type targets (not AdminServer)
5. From the list of log files, select '<server-name>.log', 'access.log' or '<server-name>-diagnostic.log' and click 'View Log File' button
6. Time stamp of audit event will be displayed in 'Time' column
7. If 'Time' column does not appear, use 'View' button -> 'Columns' list to add 'Time' field, or select individual message in log message table and view the message detail (beneath the table)
8. Repeat for each target

If any of the targets generate audit records without date and time data, this is a finding.