All uses of the sudoedit command must be audited.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-72169	RHEL-07-030730	SV-86793r4_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	2017-12-14

Details

Check Text ( C-72403r5_chk )
Verify the operating system generates audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the "sudoedit" command occur. Check for the following system calls being audited by performing the following command to check the file system rules in "/etc/audit/audit.rules": # grep -i "/usr/bin/sudoedit" /etc/audit/audit.rules -a always,exit -F path=/bin/sudoedit -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged-priv_change If the command does not return any output, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-72403r5_chk )

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

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

# grep -i "/usr/bin/sudoedit" /etc/audit/audit.rules

-a always,exit -F path=/bin/sudoedit -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged-priv_change

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

Fix Text (F-78523r4_fix)
Configure the operating system to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the "sudoedit" command occur. Add or update the following rule in "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules": -a always,exit -F path=/bin/sudoedit -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged-priv_change The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.