V-235959

Discussion

Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Depending upon the log format and application, system and application log tools may provide the only means to manipulate and manage application and system log data. It is, therefore, imperative that access to audit tools be controlled and protected from unauthorized modification. If an attacker were to delete audit tools the application server administrators would have no way of managing or viewing the logs. Application servers provide a web- and/or a command line-based management functionality for managing the application server audit capabilities. In addition, subsets of audit tool components may be stored on the file system as jar, class, or xml configuration files. The application server must ensure that in addition to protecting any web-based audit tools, any file system-based tools are protected from unauthorized deletion as well.

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1. Access AC
2. From 'Domain Structure', select 'Security Realms'
3. Select realm to configure (default is 'myrealm')
4. Select 'Users and Groups' tab -> 'Users' tab
5. From 'Users' table, select a user that must not have audit tool configuration access
6. From users settings page, select 'Groups' tab
7. Ensure the 'Chosen' table does not contain the role - 'Admin'
8. Repeat steps 5-7 for all users that must not have audit tool configuration access

If any users that should not have access to the audit tools contains the role of 'Admin', this is a finding.