The RHEL 8 audit system must audit local events.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-230393	RHEL-08-030061	SV-230393r627750_rule		Medium

Description
Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked.

Description

Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-12-01

Details

Check Text ( C-33062r567925_chk )
Verify the RHEL 8 Audit Daemon is configured to include local events, with the following command: $ sudo grep local_events /etc/audit/auditd.conf local_events = yes If the value of the "local_events" option is not set to "yes", or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-33037r567926_fix)
Configure RHEL 8 to audit local events on the system. Add or update the following line in "/etc/audit/auditd.conf" file: local_events = yes