The application server must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish where the events occurred.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-35167	SRG-APP-000097-AS-000060	SV-46454r1_rule		Low

Description
Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control includes time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. Without sufficient information establishing where the audit events occurred, investigation into the cause of events is severely hindered. In addition to logging relevant data, application servers must also log information to indicate the location of these events. Examples of relevant data include, but are not limited to, Java Virtual Machine (JVM) activity, HTTPD activity and app server-related system process activity.

Description

Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control includes time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. Without sufficient information establishing where the audit events occurred, investigation into the cause of events is severely hindered. In addition to logging relevant data, application servers must also log information to indicate the location of these events. Examples of relevant data include, but are not limited to, Java Virtual Machine (JVM) activity, HTTPD activity and app server-related system process activity.

STIG	Date
Application Server Security Requirements Guide	2013-01-08

Details

Check Text ( C-43549r1_chk )
Review the audit logs on the AS to determine if the logs contain information that establishes where within the application server sub components an event occurred. If the AS does not log audit data according to server functionality, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-39717r1_fix)
Configure the AS auditing system to log event location data.