The audit system must be configured to audit all discretionary access control permission modifications.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-819	GEN002820	SV-38857r1_rule	ECAR-1 ECAR-3 ECAR-2	Medium

Description
If the system is not configured to audit certain activities and write them to an audit log, it is more difficult to detect and track system compromises and damages incurred during a system compromise.

STIG	Date
AIX 5.3 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE	2014-10-03

Details

Check Text ( C-37849r1_chk )
Check the system's audit configuration. # more /etc/security/audit/events Confirm the following events are configured: FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and FILE_Owner. If any of these events are not configured, this is a finding. Check the FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and FILE_Owner audit events are defined in the audit classes' stanza classes: of the /etc/security/audit/config file. #more /etc/security/audit/config Make note of the audit class(es) the FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and FILE_Owner events are associated with. If the FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and FILE_Owner events are not associated with any audit classes in the classes: stanza, this is a finding. Verify the audit class is associated with the default user and all other user ids listed in the users: stanza of the /etc/security/audit/config file. If the class(es) the FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and FILE_Owner events are not associated with the default user and all the system users in the users: stanza, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-37849r1_chk )

Check the system's audit configuration.
# more /etc/security/audit/events
Confirm the following events are configured:
FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and
FILE_Owner.
If any of these events are not configured, this is a finding.

Check the FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and FILE_Owner audit events are defined in the audit classes' stanza classes: of the /etc/security/audit/config file.
#more /etc/security/audit/config
Make note of the audit class(es) the FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and
FILE_Owner events are associated with.

If the FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and
FILE_Owner events are not associated with any audit classes in the classes: stanza, this is a finding.

Verify the audit class is associated with the default user and all other user ids listed in the users: stanza of the /etc/security/audit/config file.

If the class(es) the FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and FILE_Owner events are not associated with the default user and all the system users in the users: stanza, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-33112r1_fix)
Edit /etc/security/audit/events and add the FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and FILE_Owner events to the list of audited events. Edit /etc/security/audit/config and add the FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and FILE_Owner audit events to an audit class in the classes: stanza. Edit the /etc/security/audit/config and assign the audit classes with the FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and FILE_Owner events to the all users listed in the users: stanza.

Fix Text (F-33112r1_fix)

Edit /etc/security/audit/events and add the FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and FILE_Owner events to the list of audited events.

Edit /etc/security/audit/config and add the FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and FILE_Owner audit events to an audit class in the classes: stanza.

Edit the /etc/security/audit/config and assign the audit classes with the FILE_Acl, FILE_Fchmod, FILE_Fchown, FILE_Mode, and FILE_Owner events to the all users listed in the users: stanza.