The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must audit all uses of the su command.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-72159	RHEL-07-030680	SV-86783r5_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	2019-09-25

Details

Check Text ( C-72391r6_chk )
Verify the operating system generates audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the "su" command occur. Check that the following system call is being audited by performing the following command to check the file system rules in "/etc/audit/audit.rules": # grep -iw /usr/bin/su /etc/audit/audit.rules -a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/su -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-72391r6_chk )

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

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

# grep -iw /usr/bin/su /etc/audit/audit.rules

-a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/su -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-78511r6_fix)
Configure the operating system to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the "su" command occur. Add or update the following rule in "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules": -a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/su -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged-priv_change The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.