Shutdown System When Auditing Failures Occur

An XCCDF Rule

Description

If the auditd daemon is configured to use the augenrules program to read audit rules during daemon startup (the default), add the following line to to the bottom of a file with suffix .rules in the directory /etc/audit/rules.d:

-f

If the auditd daemon is configured to use the auditctl utility to read audit rules during daemon startup, add the following line to the bottom of the /etc/audit/audit.rules file:

-f

Rationale

It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected.

Audit processing failures include software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded.

ID: xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_audit_rules_system_shutdown
Severity: Medium
References: 1 14 15 16 3 5 6

APO11.04 BAI03.05 DSS05.04 DSS05.07 MEA02.01

3.3.1 3.3.4

CCI-000139 CCI-000140

164.308(a)(1)(ii)(D) 164.308(a)(3)(ii)(A) 164.308(a)(5)(ii)(C) 164.312(a)(2)(i) 164.312(b) 164.312(d) 164.312(e)

4.3.3.3.9 4.3.3.5.8 4.3.4.4.7 4.4.2.1 4.4.2.2 4.4.2.4

SR 2.10 SR 2.11 SR 2.12 SR 2.8 SR 2.9

A.12.4.1 A.12.4.2 A.12.4.3 A.12.4.4 A.12.7.1

AU-5(b) CM-6(a) SC-24

PR.PT-1

SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022 SRG-OS-000047-GPOS-00023

CCE-85774-8
Updated: about 1 year ago

# Remediation is applicable only in certain platforms
if [ ! -f /.dockerenv ] && [ ! -f /run/.containerenv ] && rpm --quiet -q audit; then

var_audit_failure_mode='<xccdf-1.2:sub xmlns:xccdf-1.2="http://checklists.nist.gov/xccdf/1.2" idref="xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_value_var_audit_failure_mode" use="legacy"/>'

# Traverse all of:
#
# /etc/audit/audit.rules,			(for auditctl case)
# /etc/audit/rules.d/*.rules			(for augenrules case)
find /etc/audit /etc/audit/rules.d -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.rules' -exec sed -i '/-f[[:space:]]\+.*/d' {} ';'

for AUDIT_FILE in "/etc/audit/audit.rules" "/etc/audit/rules.d/immutable.rules"
do
	echo '' >> $AUDIT_FILE
	echo '# Set the audit.rules configuration to halt system upon audit failure per security requirements' >> $AUDIT_FILE
	echo "-f $var_audit_failure_mode" >> $AUDIT_FILE
done

else
    >&2 echo 'Remediation is not applicable, nothing was done'
fi

- name: Gather the package facts
  package_facts:
    manager: auto
  tags:
  - CCE-85774-8
  - NIST-800-171-3.3.1  - NIST-800-171-3.3.4
  - NIST-800-53-AU-5(b)
  - NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)
  - NIST-800-53-SC-24
  - audit_rules_system_shutdown
  - low_complexity
  - low_disruption
  - medium_severity
  - reboot_required
  - restrict_strategy
- name: XCCDF Value var_audit_failure_mode # promote to variable
  set_fact:
    var_audit_failure_mode: !!str <xccdf-1.2:sub xmlns:xccdf-1.2="http://checklists.nist.gov/xccdf/1.2" idref="xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_value_var_audit_failure_mode" use="legacy"/>
  tags:
    - always

- name: Collect all files from /etc/audit/rules.d with .rules extension
  find:
    paths: /etc/audit/rules.d/
    patterns: '*.rules'
  register: find_rules_d
  when:
  - '"audit" in ansible_facts.packages'
  - ansible_virtualization_type not in ["docker", "lxc", "openvz", "podman", "container"]
  tags:
  - CCE-85774-8
  - NIST-800-171-3.3.1
  - NIST-800-171-3.3.4
  - NIST-800-53-AU-5(b)
  - NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)
  - NIST-800-53-SC-24
  - audit_rules_system_shutdown
  - low_complexity
  - low_disruption
  - medium_severity
  - reboot_required
  - restrict_strategy

- name: Remove the -f option from all Audit config files
  lineinfile:
    path: '{{ item }}'
    regexp: ^\s*(?:-f)\s+.*$
    state: absent
  loop: '{{ find_rules_d.files | map(attribute=''path'') | list + [''/etc/audit/audit.rules'']
    }}'
  when:
  - '"audit" in ansible_facts.packages'
  - ansible_virtualization_type not in ["docker", "lxc", "openvz", "podman", "container"]
  tags:
  - CCE-85774-8
  - NIST-800-171-3.3.1
  - NIST-800-171-3.3.4
  - NIST-800-53-AU-5(b)
  - NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)
  - NIST-800-53-SC-24
  - audit_rules_system_shutdown
  - low_complexity
  - low_disruption
  - medium_severity
  - reboot_required
  - restrict_strategy

- name: Add Audit -f option into /etc/audit/rules.d/immutable.rules and /etc/audit/audit.rules
  lineinfile:
    path: '{{ item }}'
    create: true
    line: -f {{ var_audit_failure_mode }}
  loop:
  - /etc/audit/audit.rules
  - /etc/audit/rules.d/immutable.rules
  when:
  - '"audit" in ansible_facts.packages'
  - ansible_virtualization_type not in ["docker", "lxc", "openvz", "podman", "container"]
  tags:
  - CCE-85774-8
  - NIST-800-171-3.3.1
  - NIST-800-171-3.3.4
  - NIST-800-53-AU-5(b)
  - NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)
  - NIST-800-53-SC-24
  - audit_rules_system_shutdown
  - low_complexity
  - low_disruption
  - medium_severity
  - reboot_required
  - restrict_strategy

Shutdown System When Auditing Failures Occur

Description

Rationale

Remediation - Shell Script

Remediation - Ansible