Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Record Successful Access Attempts to Files - ftruncate
At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read a...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Successful Access Attempts to Files - open_by_handle_at
At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read a...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Successful Access Attempts to Files - openat
At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read a...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Successful Delete Attempts to Files - renameat
At a minimum, the audit system should collect file deletion for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit rules du...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Permission Changes to Files - chmod
The audit system should collect unsuccessful file permission change attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to re...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - creat
At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read a...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Permission Changes to Files - fchmodat
The audit system should collect unsuccessful file permission change attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to re...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - ftruncate
At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read a...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - open
At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read a...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Creation Attempts to Files - open_by_handle_at O_CREAT
The audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. The <code>open_by_handle_at</code> syscall can be used to create new files when O_CREAT flag is specified. The fo...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Creation Attempts to Files - open O_CREAT
The audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. The <code>open</code> syscall can be used to create new files when O_CREAT flag is specified. The following auidt...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - openat
At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read a...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Creation Attempts to Files - openat O_CREAT
The audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. The <code>openat</code> syscall can be used to create new files when O_CREAT flag is specified. The following aui...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Delete Attempts to Files - rename
The audit system should collect unsuccessful file deletion attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit ...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Permission Changes to Files - setxattr
The audit system should collect unsuccessful file permission change attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to re...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Delete Attempts to Files - unlink
The audit system should collect unsuccessful file deletion attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Unsuccessful Delete Attempts to Files - unlinkat
The audit system should collect unsuccessful file deletion attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Attempts to Alter Logon and Logout Events
The audit system already collects login information for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit rules during dae...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands
The audit system should collect information about usage of privileged commands for all users. These are commands with suid or sgid bits on and they are specially risky in local block device partiti...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - at
At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - chage
At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - crontab
At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - gpasswd
At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - newgrp
At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - postdrop
At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - ssh-keysign
At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - umount
At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - usermod
At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program...Rule Medium Severity -
Record Attempts to Alter Time Through clock_settime
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 line to a file with suffix <cod...Rule Medium Severity -
Record attempts to alter time through settimeofday
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 line to a file with suffix <cod...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditd Disk Error Action on Disk Error
The <code>auditd</code> service can be configured to take an action when there is a disk error. Edit the file <code>/etc/audit/auditd.conf</code>. Add or modify the following line, substituting <i>...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditd max_log_file_action Upon Reaching Maximum Log Size
The default action to take when the logs reach their maximum size is to rotate the log files, discarding the oldest one. To configure the action taken by <code>auditd</code>, add or correct the lin...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditd space_left Action on Low Disk Space
The <code>auditd</code> service can be configured to take an action when disk space <i>starts</i> to run low. Edit the file <code>/etc/audit/auditd.conf</code>. Modify the following line, substitut...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure basic parameters of Audit system
Perform basic configuration of Audit system. Make sure that any previously defined rules are cleared, the auditing system is configured to handle sudden bursts of events, and in cases of failure, m...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of loading and unloading of kernel modules
Ensure that loading and unloading of kernel modules is audited. The following rules configure audit as described above: <pre>## These rules watch for kernel module insertion. By monitoring ## the ...Rule Medium Severity -
Perform general configuration of Audit for OSPP
Configure some basic <code>Audit</code> parameters specific for OSPP profile. In particular, configure <code>Audit</code> to watch for direct modification of files storing system user and group inf...Rule Medium Severity
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