All uses of the crontab command must be audited.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-72183	RHEL-07-030800	SV-86807r2_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 commands. The organization must maintain audit trails in sufficient detail to reconstruct events to determine the cause and impact of compromise. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, 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 commands. The organization must maintain audit trails in sufficient detail to reconstruct events to determine the cause and impact of compromise. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215

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

Details

Check Text ( C-72417r3_chk )
Verify the operating system generates audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the "crontab" command occur. Check for the following system call being audited by performing the following command to check the file system rules in "/etc/audit/audit.rules": # grep -i /usr/bin/crontab /etc/audit/audit.rules -a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/crontab -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged-cron If the command does not return any output, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-72417r3_chk )

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

Check for the following system call being audited by performing the following command to check the file system rules in "/etc/audit/audit.rules":

# grep -i /usr/bin/crontab /etc/audit/audit.rules

-a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/crontab -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged-cron

If the command does not return any output, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-78537r3_fix)
Configure the operating system to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the "crontab" command occur. Add or update the following rule in "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules": -a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/crontab -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged-cron The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.