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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Record Events that Modify User/Group Information via open_by_handle_at syscall - /etc/gshadow

    The audit system should collect write events to /etc/gshadow file for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit ru...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify User/Group Information via openat syscall - /etc/gshadow

    The audit system should collect write events to /etc/gshadow file for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit ru...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify User/Group Information via open_by_handle_at syscall - /etc/passwd

    The audit system should collect write events to /etc/passwd file for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit rul...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify User/Group Information via open_by_handle_at syscall - /etc/shadow

    The audit system should collect write events to /etc/shadow file for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit rul...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify the System's Network Environment

    If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit rules during daemon startup (the default), add the following lines to a file with suffix <co...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify User/Group Information - /etc/gshadow

    If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit rules during daemon startup (the default), add the following lines to a file with suffix <co...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Audit Configuration Files Permissions are 640 or More Restrictive

    All audit configuration files permissions must be 640 or more restrictive.
    chmod 0640 /etc/audit/audit*.{rules,conf} /etc/audit/rules.d/*
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify the System's Discretionary Access Controls

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect file permission changes for all users and root. Note that the "-F arch=b32" lines should be present even on a 64 bit system. These commands identify sy...
    Group
  • Record Events that Modify the System's Discretionary Access Controls - chmod

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect file permission changes for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify the System's Discretionary Access Controls - fchown

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect file permission changes for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify the System's Discretionary Access Controls - fremovexattr

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect file permission changes for all users and root. <br> <br> If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> pr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects File Deletion Events by User

    At a minimum the audit system should collect file deletion events for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit ru...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify the System's Discretionary Access Controls - lremovexattr

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect file permission changes for all users and root. <br> <br> If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> pr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Events that Modify the System's Discretionary Access Controls - umount2

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect file system umount2 changes. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit rules during daem...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Any Attempts to Run setfiles

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect any execution attempt of the <code>setfiles</code> command for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>aug...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Any Attempts to Run seunshare

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect any execution attempt of the <code>seunshare</code> command for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>au...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects File Deletion Events by User - rename

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect file deletion events for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects File Deletion Events by User - rmdir

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect file deletion events for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects File Deletion Events by User - unlinkat

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect file deletion events for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unauthorized Access Attempts Events to Files (unsuccessful)

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. Note that the "-F arch=b32" lines should be present even on a 64 bit system. These commands identify...
    Group

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