MariaDB must off-load audit data to a separate log management facility; this must be continuous and in near real time for systems with a network connection to the storage facility and weekly or more often for stand-alone systems.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity. MariaDB writes audit records to files in the file system, to other kinds of local repository, or directly to a centralized log management system. Whatever the method used, it must be compatible with off-loading the records to the centralized system.
- ID
- SV-253776r961860_rule
- Version
- MADB-10-012400
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
To set up the audit logs to write to sylog:
Edit the mariadb-enterprise.cnf file. Add the following under the [mariadb] section:
server_audit_output_type = 'syslog'
After the .cnf file is updated and saved, the mariadb database service must be restarted.