MariaDB must provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-253729	MADB-10-007500	SV-253729r841712_rule		Medium

Description
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 a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected. The appropriate support staff include, at a minimum, the ISSO and the DBA/SA. Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Real-time alerts provide these messages immediately (i.e., the time from event detection to alert occurs in seconds or less).

Description

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 a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected. The appropriate support staff include, at a minimum, the ISSO and the DBA/SA. Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Real-time alerts provide these messages immediately (i.e., the time from event detection to alert occurs in seconds or less).

STIG	Date
MariaDB Enterprise 10.x Security Technical Implementation Guide	2022-08-24

Details

Check Text ( C-57181r841710_chk )
Review MariaDB Server settings, OS, or third-party logging software settings to determine whether a real-time alert will be sent to the appropriate personnel when auditing fails for any reason. If real-time alerts are not sent upon auditing failure, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-57132r841711_fix)
Configure the system to provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff when a specified audit failure occurs. It is possible to create scripts or implement third-party tools to enable real-time alerting for audit failures in MariaDB.