The SLES for vRealize audit system must be configured to audit file deletions.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-239637	VROM-SL-001440	SV-239637r662362_rule		Medium

Description
If the SLES for vRealize system is not configured to audit certain activities and write them to an audit log, it is more difficult to detect and track system compromises and damages incurred during a system compromise.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-42870r662360_chk )
Check SLES for vRealize audit configuration to determine if file and directory deletions are audited: # cat /etc/audit.rules /etc/audit/audit.rules | grep -e "-a exit,always" | grep -i "rmdir" If no results are returned or the results do not contain "-S rmdir", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-42829r662361_fix)
Add the following to the "/etc/audit/audit.rules" file in order to capture file and directory deletion events: -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S rmdir -S rm -a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S rmdir -S rm