TOSS must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/etc/security/opasswd".
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Once an attacker establishes access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to enable a new or disabled account. Auditing account modification actions provides logging that can be used for forensic purposes.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-253027r958684_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Configure TOSS to generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect "/etc/security/opasswd".
Add or update the following file system rule to "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules":
-w /etc/security/opasswd -p wa -k identity