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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Ubuntu 20.04

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Record Any Attempts to Run setfacl

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect any execution attempt of the <code>setfacl</code> command for all users and root. If the <code>auditd...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Execution Attempts to Run SELinux Privileged Commands

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of SELinux privileged commands for all users and root.
    Group
  • Record Any Attempts to Run chcon

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect any execution attempt of the <code>chcon</code> command for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record 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 t...
    Group
  • 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 t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects File Deletion Events by User - renameat

    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 t...
    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 t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects File Deletion Events by User - unlink

    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 t...
    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 t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Appropriate Action Must be Setup When the Internal Audit Event Queue is Full

    The audit system should have an action setup in the event the internal event queue becomes full. To setup an overflow action edit <code>/etc/audit/...
    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 presen...
    Group
  • 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...
    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...
    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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Write Audit Logs to the Disk

    To configure Audit daemon to write Audit logs to the disk, set <code>write_logs</code> to <code>yes</code> in <code>/etc/audit/auditd.conf</code>. ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • System Accounting with auditd

    The <code>auditd</code> program can perform comprehensive monitoring of system activity. This section makes use of recommended configuration settin...
    Group
  • 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - truncate

    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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Information on Kernel Modules Loading and Unloading

    To capture kernel module loading and unloading events, use following lines, setting ARCH to either b32 for 32-bit system, or having two lines for b...
    Group
  • Record Attempts to Alter Logon and Logout Events - faillog

    The audit system already collects login information for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Attempts to Alter Logon and Logout Events - lastlog

    The audit system already collects login information for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Attempts to Alter Logon and Logout Events - tallylog

    The audit system already collects login information for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Information on the Use of Privileged Commands

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root.
    Group
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - init

    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 con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - poweroff

    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 con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - reboot

    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 con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - shutdown

    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 con...
    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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Any Attempts to Run apparmor_parser

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect any execution attempt of the <code>apparmor_parser</code> command for all users and root. If the <cod...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure a Sufficiently Large Partition for Audit Logs

    The Ubuntu 20.04 operating system must allocate audit record storage capacity to store at least one weeks worth of audit records when audit records...
    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 con...
    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 con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - chfn

    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 con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - chsh

    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 con...
    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 con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - fdisk

    Configure the operating system to audit the execution of the partition management program "fdisk".
    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 con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - insmod

    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 con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Action for auditd to take when disk is full

    'The setting for disk_full_action in /etc/audit/auditd.conf, if multiple values are allowed write them separated by pipes as in "syslog|single|halt...
    Value
  • Auditd priority for flushing data to disk

    The setting for flush in /etc/audit/auditd.conf
    Value
  • Number of Record to Retain Before Flushing to Disk

    The setting for freq in /etc/audit/auditd.conf
    Value
  • Maximum audit log file size for auditd

    The setting for max_log_file in /etc/audit/auditd.conf
    Value
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - modprobe

    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 con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - mount

    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 con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - newgidmap

    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 con...
    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 con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Action for auditd to take when log files reach their maximum size

    The setting for max_log_file_action in /etc/audit/auditd.conf. The following options are available: <br>ignore - audit daemon does nothing. <br>sys...
    Value
  • Number of log files for auditd to retain

    The setting for num_logs in /etc/audit/auditd.conf
    Value
  • Size remaining in disk space before prompting space_left_action

    The setting for space_left (MB) in /etc/audit/auditd.conf
    Value

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