The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must encrypt the transfer of audit records off-loaded onto a different system or media from the system being audited.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-204510	RHEL-07-030310	SV-204510r877390_rule		Medium

Description
Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133, SRG-OS-000479-GPOS-00224

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2022-12-06

Details

Check Text ( C-4634r88722_chk )
Verify the operating system encrypts audit records off-loaded onto a different system or media from the system being audited. To determine if the transfer is encrypted, use the following command: # grep -i enable_krb5 /etc/audisp/audisp-remote.conf enable_krb5 = yes If the value of the "enable_krb5" option is not set to "yes" or the line is commented out, ask the System Administrator to indicate how the audit logs are off-loaded to a different system or media. If there is no evidence that the transfer of the audit logs being off-loaded to another system or media is encrypted, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-4634r88722_chk )

Verify the operating system encrypts audit records off-loaded onto a different system or media from the system being audited.

To determine if the transfer is encrypted, use the following command:

# grep -i enable_krb5 /etc/audisp/audisp-remote.conf
enable_krb5 = yes

If the value of the "enable_krb5" option is not set to "yes" or the line is commented out, ask the System Administrator to indicate how the audit logs are off-loaded to a different system or media.

If there is no evidence that the transfer of the audit logs being off-loaded to another system or media is encrypted, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-4634r88723_fix)
Configure the operating system to encrypt the transfer of off-loaded audit records onto a different system or media from the system being audited. Uncomment the "enable_krb5" option in "/etc/audisp/audisp-remote.conf" and set it with the following line: enable_krb5 = yes