The SLES for vRealize must provide an immediate real-time alert to the SA and ISSO, at a minimum, of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-239599	VROM-SL-001045	SV-239599r662248_rule		Medium

Description
It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability and system operation may be adversely affected. Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Real-time alerts provide these messages immediately (i.e., the time from event detection to alert occurs in seconds or less).

Description

It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability and system operation may be adversely affected. Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Real-time alerts provide these messages immediately (i.e., the time from event detection to alert occurs in seconds or less).

STIG	Date
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.x SLES Security Technical Implementation Guide	2021-07-01

Details

Check Text ( C-42832r662246_chk )
Check "/etc/audit/auditd.conf" file for the "space_left_action" parameter with the following command: # cat /etc/audit/auditd.conf \| grep space_left_action If the "space_left_action" parameter is missing, set to "ignore", set to "suspend", set to "single", set to "halt", or is blank, this is a finding Expected Result: space_left_action = SYSLOG Notes: If the "space_left_action" parameter is set to "exec" the system executes a designated script. If this script informs the SA of the event, this is not a finding. If the "space_left_action" parameter is set to "email" and the "action_mail_acct" parameter is not set to the email address of the system administrator, this is a finding. The "action_mail_acct" parameter, if missing, defaults to "root". Note that if the email address of the system administrator is on a remote system "sendmail" must be available.

Check Text ( C-42832r662246_chk )

Check "/etc/audit/auditd.conf" file for the "space_left_action" parameter with the following command:

# cat /etc/audit/auditd.conf | grep space_left_action

If the "space_left_action" parameter is missing, set to "ignore", set to "suspend", set to "single", set to "halt", or is blank, this is a finding

Expected Result:

space_left_action = SYSLOG

Notes:
If the "space_left_action" parameter is set to "exec" the system executes a designated script.

If this script informs the SA of the event, this is not a finding.

If the "space_left_action" parameter is set to "email" and the "action_mail_acct" parameter is not set to the email address of the system administrator, this is a finding.

The "action_mail_acct" parameter, if missing, defaults to "root". Note that if the email address of the system administrator is on a remote system "sendmail" must be available.

Fix Text (F-42791r662247_fix)
Set the "space_left_action" parameter to the valid setting "SYSLOG", by running the following command: # sed -i "/^[^#]*space_left_action/ c\admin_space_left_action = SYSLOG" /etc/audit/auditd.conf Restart the audit service: # service auditd restart