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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027

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  • RHEL 9 audit logs file must have mode 0600 or less permissive to prevent unauthorized access to the audit log.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an orga...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000051-GPOS-00024

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  • RHEL 9 must periodically flush audit records to disk to prevent the loss of audit records.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If option "freq" is not set to a value that requires audit records being written to disk after a threshold number is reached,...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000255-GPOS-00096

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  • RHEL 9 must produce audit records containing information to establish the identity of any individual or process associated with the event.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • RHEL 9 must write audit records to disk.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Audit data should be synchronously written to disk to ensure log integrity. This setting assures that all audit event data is...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000063-GPOS-00032

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  • RHEL 9 must allow only the information system security manager (ISSM) (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be audited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to restrict the roles and individuals that can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000063-GPOS-00032

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  • RHEL 9 /etc/audit/auditd.conf file must have 0640 or less permissive to prevent unauthorized access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to restrict the roles and individuals that can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000254-GPOS-00095

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  • RHEL 9 must allocate an audit_backlog_limit of sufficient size to capture processes that start prior to the audit daemon.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022

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  • RHEL 9 must have mail aliases to notify the information system security officer (ISSO) and system administrator (SA) (at a minimum) in the event of an audit processing failure.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133

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  • RHEL 9 audispd-plugins package must be installed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;"audispd-plugins" provides plugins for the real-time interface to the audit subsystem, "audispd". These plugins can do things...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000326-GPOS-00126

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  • RHEL 9 must audit uses of the "execve" system call.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Misuse of privileged functions, either intentionally or unintentionally by authorized users, or by unauthorized external enti...
    Rule Medium Severity

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