All uses of the sudoers command must be audited.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-72163	RHEL-07-030700	SV-86787r3_rule		Medium

Description
Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information. At a minimum, the organization must audit the full-text recording of privileged access commands. The organization must maintain audit trails in sufficient detail to reconstruct events to determine the cause and impact of compromise. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215

Description

Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information. At a minimum, the organization must audit the full-text recording of privileged access commands. The organization must maintain audit trails in sufficient detail to reconstruct events to determine the cause and impact of compromise. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2017-07-08

Details

Check Text ( C-72397r4_chk )
Verify the operating system generates audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the "sudoer" command occur. Check for modification of the following files being audited by performing the following commands to check the file system rules in "/etc/audit/audit.rules": # grep /etc/sudoers /etc/audit/audit.rules -w /etc/sudoers -p wa -k privileged-actions # grep /etc/sudoers.d /etc/audit/audit.rules -w /etc/sudoers.d -p wa -k privileged-actions If the commands do not return output that does not match the examples, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-72397r4_chk )

Verify the operating system generates audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the "sudoer" command occur.

Check for modification of the following files being audited by performing the following commands to check the file system rules in "/etc/audit/audit.rules":

# grep /etc/sudoers /etc/audit/audit.rules

-w /etc/sudoers -p wa -k privileged-actions

# grep /etc/sudoers.d /etc/audit/audit.rules

-w /etc/sudoers.d -p wa -k privileged-actions

If the commands do not return output that does not match the examples, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-78517r4_fix)
Configure the operating system to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the "sudoer" command occur. Add or update the following rule in "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules": -w /etc/sudoers -p wa -k privileged-actions -w /etc/sudoers.d -p wa -k privileged-actions The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.